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bunk-up en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (UK, informal) A manoeuvre in which one person is pushed upwards by another, or others, in order to climb over a fence or similar obstacle.
    • Give us a bunk-up and I'll get your ball back.
  2. (slang) Casual sex.
    • Smoking should only be done glamorously, at will readings or during multimillion-dollar jewellery heists, or wretchedly, in Paris, lamenting an extramarital bunk-up—so let’s have none of that. 2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    • You don't feel like a bit of a bunk-up this evening, Stubby, by any chance? 1971, Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, “Book 2: The Old Five-fingered Widow”, in A Soldier Erect, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, →OCLC, page 111:

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leg up