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English noun: bunk | |||
| 1. | bunk (artifact) a long trough for feeding cattle | ||
| Synonyms | feed bunk | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | manger, trough | ||
| 2. | bunk (artifact) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | ||
| Synonyms | berth, built in bed | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bed | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | lower, lower berth, upper, upper berth | ||
| 3. | bunk (artifact) a rough bed (as at a campsite) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bed | ||
| 4. | bunk (communication) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | ||
| Synonyms | buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | drivel, garbage | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit | ||
| 5. | bunk (communication) a message that seems to convey no meaning | ||
| Synonyms | hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | content, message, subject matter, substance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | absurdity, absurdness, amphigory, balderdash, baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, drool, empty talk, empty words, fa la, fal la, fiddle-faddle, flummery, gibber, gibberish, hooey, hot air, humbug, incoherence, incoherency, jabberwocky, mummery, nonsense verse, palaver, piffle, poppycock, rhetoric, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, stuff, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, unintelligibility | ||
| 6. | bunk (artifact) beds built one above the other | ||
| Synonyms | bunk bed | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bed | ||
English verb: bunk | |||
| 1. | bunk (social) avoid paying | ||
| Samples | Beat the subway fare. | ||
| Synonyms | beat | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cheat, chisel, rip off | ||
| 2. | bunk (possession) provide with a bunk | ||
| Samples | We bunked the children upstairs. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bed | ||
| 3. | bunk (motion) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | ||
| Samples | If you see this man, run!. The burglars escaped before the police showed up. | ||
| Synonyms | break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | go away, go forth, leave | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | flee, fly, skedaddle, take flight | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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