noun
- A long trough for feeding cattle.
- synonyms: feed bunk
- A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers.
- synonyms: berth, built in bed
- A rough bed (as at a campsite. )
- Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements.
- A message that seems to convey no meaning.
- synonyms: nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
- Beds built one above the other.
- synonyms: bunk bed
verb
- Avoid paying.
- usage: "beat the subway fare"
- synonyms: beat
- Provide with a bunk.
- usage: "We bunked the children upstairs"
- Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
- usage: "If you see this man, run"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- synonyms: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away
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