1. Beds built one above the other
   "The children loved sleeping in their new bunk beds";
   - bunk bed
    
2. A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
   "The sailor slept soundly in his bunk despite the rough seas";
   - berth, built in bed
    
3. A rough bed (as at a campsite)
   "The hikers slept in bunks at the mountain shelter"
    
4. [informal] Statements or beliefs that are untrue or make no sense
   "He dismissed the conspiracy theory as pure bunk";
   - bunkum [informal], buncombe [informal], guff [informal], rot [informal], hogwash [informal], flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], Irish bull [slang], rhubarb [Brit, informal], bilge [informal], junk [informal], bull [slang], nonsense, jive [N. Amer, informal], bushwah [N. Amer, informal], bushwa [N. Amer, informal], folderol, rubbish [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], trash [informal], wish-wash [informal], applesauce [N. Amer, informal], codswallop [Brit, informal], falderal, drivel, garbage
    
5. [informal] Something that makes no sense; words with no meaning
   "The poem was full of bunk, with made-up words and illogical phrases";
   - nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum [informal]
    
6. A long trough for feeding cattle
   "The rancher filled the feed bunk with hay for the hungry herd";
   - feed bunk

1. Provide with a bunk
   "We bunked the children upstairs"
    
2. [Brit, informal] Be absent from work or school without permission
   "The boy often bunks off";
   - bunk off [Brit, informal], play hooky [N. Amer, informal], play truant, mitch [Ireland, informal], truant, wag [Austral, NZ, informal]
    
3. [informal] Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
   "When they heard sirens, the teenagers bunked";
   - scat [informal], run, scarper [Brit, informal], turn tail [informal], lam [N. Amer, informal], run away, hightail it [N. Amer, informal], head for the hills [informal], take to the woods [informal], escape, fly the coop [informal], break away, leg it [Brit, informal]
    
4. [informal] Avoid paying
   "The teenagers bunked their bus fare";
   - beat

Derived forms: bunked, bunking, bunks

Type of: bed, cheat, chisel [informal], content, cut, go away, go forth, leave, manger, message, off [informal], rip off [informal], skip, subject matter, substance, trough

Encyclopedia: Bunk, Tom