Definitions for bunks

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bunks bunk

Spelling: [buhngk]

IPA: /bʌŋk/

Bunks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in bunks (bknsu).

Definitions for bunks

noun

1. a built-in platform bed, as on a ship.
2. Informal. any bed.
3. a cabin used for sleeping quarters, as in a summer camp; bunkhouse.
4. a trough for feeding cattle.
5. humbug; nonsense.

Idioms

1. do a bunk, to leave hastily, especially under suspicious circumstances; run away.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a place to sleep.
2. to absent oneself from:

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to occupy a bunk or any sleeping quarters:
2. to run off or away; flee.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bump.

Origin of bunks

First recorded in 1750-60; back formation from bunker

Examples for bunks

I was shown his bunk below, and there I found I had guessed right.

It was several weeks before I was allowed even to quit my bunk.

Caradoc lifted his head from the bunk and blinked at the two men in the door.

We spent our days and nights with the kids at the center, sleeping on bunk beds with thin mattresses.

She don't sail for an hour or two and I'll be asleep in my bunk long before.

Barba offered me a line of cocaine as we sat on his bunk bed covered by posters of musicians and half-naked women.

More than 40 of us crammed into each darkened bay lined with bunk beds.

Leonard rubbed the stuff on his side and turned into his bunk.

At the prefab dorms on the American base in Kandahar, I ran into my neighbor from the bunk next door.

Half of it is taken up by the bunk beds and improvised benches.