| bunk | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. bunk, feed bunk | a long trough for feeding cattle. |
| ~ manger, trough | a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. berth, built in bed, bunk | a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers. |
| ~ bed | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" |
| ~ lower, lower berth | the lower of two berths. |
| ~ upper, upper berth | the higher of two berths. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bunk | a rough bed (as at a campsite). |
| ~ bed | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" |
| n. (communication) | 4. buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot | unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements). |
| ~ bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, irish bull, crap, shit, bull | obscene words for unacceptable behavior.; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" |
| ~ drivel, garbage | a worthless message. |
| n. (communication) | 5. bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality | a message that seems to convey no meaning. |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness | a message whose content is at variance with reason. |
| ~ amphigory, nonsense verse | nonsensical writing (usually verse). |
| ~ balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle | trivial nonsense. |
| ~ buzzword, cant | stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition. |
| ~ cobblers | nonsense.; "I think that is a load of cobblers" |
| ~ crock | nonsense; foolish talk.; "that's a crock" |
| ~ fa la, fal la | meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong. |
| ~ gibber, gibberish | unintelligible talking. |
| ~ unintelligibility, incoherence, incoherency | nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible. |
| ~ jabberwocky | nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll). |
| ~ mummery, flummery | meaningless ceremonies and flattery. |
| ~ empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric | loud and confused and empty talk.; "mere rhetoric" |
| ~ rigamarole, rigmarole | a set of confused and meaningless statements. |
| ~ schmegegge, shmegegge | (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense. |
| ~ hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff | senseless talk.; "don't give me that stuff" |
| ~ baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle | pretentious or silly talk or writing. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. bunk, bunk bed | beds built one above the other. |
| ~ bed | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" |
| v. (social) | 7. beat, bunk | avoid paying.; "beat the subway fare" |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| v. (possession) | 8. bunk | provide with a bunk.; "We bunked the children upstairs" |
| ~ bed | furnish with a bed.; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" |
| v. (motion) | 9. break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail | flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| ~ flee, take flight, fly | run away quickly.; "He threw down his gun and fled" |
| ~ skedaddle | run away, as if in a panic. |
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