Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.
Meanings
One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […] 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
When the ship reached Melbourne two days later we collared a couple of cases of apples from the hold and hid them in our bunks. 1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 94:
A cot.
(informal) A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
(US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
(US, dialectal) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
(Singapore, broadly) A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
Then, we can train in the bunk. Right, Vinod? We can train anywhere. Today you help the Armskote. 1993, Haresh Sharma, Off Centre, Ethos Books, →ISBN, Act 3, scene I, page 84, lines 26–27:
es camarote (built-in bed on board a ship) · fr couchette (one of a series of berth in tiers) · nn køye (built-in bed on board a ship) · pl koja (built-in bed on board a ship) · pt beliche (one of a series of berth in tiers) · sv koj (built-in bed on board a ship) · de Koje (built-in bed on board a ship) · bg койка (one of a series of berth in tiers) · pt beliche (built-in bed on board a ship) · es litera (one of a series of berth in tiers) · nn køy (built-in bed on board a ship) · yi באַנקבעטל (built-in bed on board a ship) · he דַּרְגָּשׁ שֵׁנָה (built-in bed on board a ship) · it cuccetta (one of a series of berth in tiers) · bg ко́йка (built-in bed on board a ship) · ja 寝台 (one of a series of berth in tiers) · ru ко́йка (built-in bed on board a ship) · cmn 床位 (one of a series of berth in tiers) · nb køye (one of a series of berth in tiers) · ru ко́йка (one of a series of berth in tiers) · fr couchette (built-in bed on board a ship) · yi באַנקבעטל (one of a series of berth in tiers) · cmn 舖位 /铺位 (one of a series of berth in tiers) · nn køy (one of a series of berth in tiers) · fi punkka (one of a series of berth in tiers) · ru по́лка (one of a series of berth in tiers) · nrf cabanne (built-in bed on board a ship) · it letto a castello (one of a series of berth in tiers) · nb køye (built-in bed on board a ship) · nn køye (one of a series of berth in tiers) · it cuccetta (built-in bed on board a ship) · fi punkka (built-in bed on board a ship) · es litera (built-in bed on board a ship) · de Koje (one of a series of berth in tiers) · ga bunc (one of a series of berth in tiers) · ga bunc (built-in bed on board a ship)
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.
Meanings
To occupy a bunk.
Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
“You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.” 1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47:
(obsolete, uncountable) In early use often in the form the bunk.
This knife-throwing act is the bunk 1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation:
(slang, uncountable) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz 2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$, “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28:
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
Meanings
(slang) A hasty departure.
You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
Meanings
(India, UK, slang) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off').
The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
(UK, dated, slang) To expel from a school.
She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for. 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84:
(slang) To depart; scram.
"They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]" 1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:
sv skolka (to fail to attend school without permission) · fi lintsata (to fail to attend school without permission) · es hacer la cimarra (to fail to attend school without permission) · bg бягам от училище (to fail to attend school without permission) · mi takē kura (to fail to attend school without permission) · fr buissonner (to fail to attend school without permission) · uk прогулювати (to fail to attend school without permission) · es hacer novillos (to fail to attend school without permission) · uk сачкувати (to fail to attend school without permission) · fr faire l’école buissonnière (to fail to attend school without permission) · ru прогуливать (to fail to attend school without permission)