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1. A long trough for feeding cattle
   - feed bunk
    
2. A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
   - berth, built in bed
    
3. A rough bed (as at a campsite)
    
4. (informal) statements or beliefs that are untrue or make no sense
   - bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash, jive [N. Amer], rhubarb [Brit], junk, flapdoodle [N. Amer], nonsense, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery [archaic], trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop [Brit], falderal
    
5. Something that makes no sense; words with no meaning
   - nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
    
6. Beds built one above the other
   - bunk bed

1. Avoid paying
   "bunk the subway fare";
   - beat
    
2. Provide with a bunk
   "We bunked the children upstairs"
    
3. Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
   "If you see this man, bunk!";
   - scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam [N. Amer], run away, hightail it, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away, leg it [Brit]
    
4. [Brit] Play truant from work or school
   "The boy often bunks off";
   - bunk off [Brit], play hooky [N. Amer], skive, truant, wag [Austral, NZ], play truant, mitch [Ireland]

Derived forms: bunks, bunked, bunking

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

Encyclopedia: Bunk