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# bunk

«bunk» in Mova's school dictionary: **A narrow bed fixed to a wall, as on a ship or train** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bunk, bunks); verb (bunk, bunks, bunked, bunking — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A narrow bed fixed to a wall, as on a ship or train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#m1)

2) One of two beds built one above the other; a bunk bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#m2)

3) (verb, informal) To sleep somewhere, often with others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#m3)

4) (British, informal) «bunk off»: to stay away from school or work without permission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, brothers and sisters often share bunk beds; at camp everyone gets a bunk. In safety, small children should not sleep in the top bunk and there should be a rail so no one falls. In stories, sailors sleep in bunks on ships. Phrases: «bunk bed», «top/bottom bunk», «bunk off school».

### examples

- I sleep on the top bunk and my brother on the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x1)
- At summer camp we each chose a bunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x2)
- The sailors climbed into their narrow bunks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x3)
- Use the ladder to get to the top bunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x4)
- We bunked at Grandma's house for the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x5)
- Little kids shouldn't sleep on the top bunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x6)
- Bunking off school is against the rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x7)
- The train had bunks so passengers could sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/#x8)

### note

Countable: a bunk, bunks. «Bunk off» (British) means skipping school — it is truancy and it is not allowed. «That's bunk!» is old slang for «nonsense».

### In the corpora

- [In Liverpool, twins Kieron and Kaden have bunk beds; every night Kaden kicks the top bunk from below.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/5/)
- [Malik's aunt already has three kids, so Malik shares a bunk bed with his cousin Dre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bunk» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bunk/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.