BUNK


Meaning of BUNK in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bunk beds (= two single beds joined together one above the other )

The kids love sleeping in bunk beds.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

top

A top bunk was then pulled down from the ceiling, complete with ladder.

He rubbed his eyes and peered down from the top bunk .

■ NOUN

bed

The only apparent relief from chess were two dolls and a golliwog on Judit's bunk bed .

The rooms were actually quite luxurious with a shower, colour television and duvet covered bunk beds .

Justin has an upper berth on one of two sets of bunk beds that take up most of the tiny room.

Bedroom with bunk beds for two. 6 to 8 berth Luxury Caravans.

The room, about the size of my apartment, was lined with fiberglass pallets arranged in tiers like bizarre bunk beds .

The earthen floor was covered with planks and on either side were two rough bunk beds .

The tills are stacked like bunk beds , 9 to 10 feet high.

■ VERB

lie

Turning off the tape, he lay on the bottom bunk and crossed his arms under his head.

Heather lay 011 her bunk and puked into the pail.

They were both lying on their bunks , one reading, one scribbling a letter on a notepad.

Saw the vomit, yellow and translucent on my training shoe lying beside the bunk .

The two men lay dead upon their bunks , their eyes staring, their skin strangely mottled.

A long day out and lying tiredly on bunks , laughing at Miss?

sleep

We slept in bunks around a pot-bellied stove.

Seven hours out of Moscow he caught twenty minutes' sleep on a wooden bunk with a rented mattress and pillow.

My younger brother and sister were in the same room, sleeping in bunk beds.

Prisoners are not only doubling up in cells; some are sleeping in bunk beds in day rooms.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By the way, the main cabin with the double bunk is Fen's.

During the night I wake to dash the two yards from bunk to bathroom.

The men lay on the bunks, all but one.

We were ready to do a bunk .

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I bunked with friends in Washington.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But come nightfall, they find themselves bunking with two or three people from different cultures.

Participants, who bunked down in cabins or slept under the stars, paid $ 50 to attend the affair.

Shit, I sound like I was bunking with the guy.

So I bunked in the toilet window and I couldn't believe it!

The truth was I really fancied going there but I didn't even have the money to bunk the tube.

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