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BUNK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

Synonyms:

berth; built in bed; bunk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bunk" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunk"):

lower; lower berth (the lower of two berths)

upper; upper berth (the higher of two berths)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rough bed (as at a campsite)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bunk" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A long trough for feeding cattle

Synonyms:

bunk; feed bunk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bunk" is a kind of...):

manger; trough (a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Beds built one above the other

Synonyms:

bunk; bunk bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bunk" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Derivation:

bunk (provide with a bunk)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A message that seems to convey no meaning

Synonyms:

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bunk" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunk"):

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)

hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)

schmegegge; shmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)

rigamarole; rigmarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)

empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk)

flummery; mummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)

jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

fa la; fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)

crock (nonsense; foolish talk)

cobblers (nonsense)

buzzword; cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)

balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle (trivial nonsense)

amphigory; nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))

absurdity; absurdness; ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

Synonyms:

buncombe; bunk; bunkum; guff; hogwash; rot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bunk" is a kind of...):

drivel; garbage (a worthless message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunk"):

bull; bullshit; crap; dogshit; horseshit; Irish bull; shit (obscene words for unacceptable behavior)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

Example:

The burglars escaped before the police showed up

Synonyms:

break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "bunk" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bunk"):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

skedaddle (run away, as if in a panic)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with a bunk

Example:

We bunked the children upstairs

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "bunk" is one way to...):

bed (furnish with a bed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

bunk (beds built one above the other)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Avoid paying

Example:

beat the subway fare

Synonyms:

beat; bunk

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "bunk" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

There was a grunt from Weedon Scott's bunk, and a stir of blankets.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There were two bunks in the cabin, and into one of them, when he had cleared his lip, the stranger tossed his bed-roll.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Wolf Larsen had taken to his bunk with one of his strange, splitting headaches.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The blankets in the other bunk stirred irritably.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"We'll sleep here," he said, "unless you prefer this bunk. You're the first comer and you have first choice, you know."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Yes, he is,” I said, sliding out of the bunk and striving my hardest to keep my voice steady and bold.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"One bunk's just as good as the other."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Leach never changed his position on the edge of the bunk.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She saw only a man sitting on the edge of the bunk and incuriously studying the toes of his moccasins.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I pondered it long, lying sleepless in my bunk and reviewing in endless procession the facts of the situation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)