has particulars: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness, amphigory, nonsense verse, balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, fa la, fal la, gibber, gibberish, incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility, jabberwocky, flummery, mummery, empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle

bunk(n = noun.artifact) bunk bed - beds built one above the other; Array

is a kind of bed

Derived form verb bunk₂

Verb bunk has 3 senses

bunk(v = verb.social) beat - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"

is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

bunk(v = verb.possession) Array - provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

is one way to

bed

Derived form noun bunk₆

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

bunk(v = verb.motion) break away, 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"

is one way to go away, go forth, leave

Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bunk, n. [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch.].

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [1913 Webster]
One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers; as, to sleep in the top bunk. [1913 Webster]
A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [1913 Webster]
a bed. [PJC]

bunk, v. i.

To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bunk, n. a sleeping-berth, esp. a shelflike bed against a wall, e.g. in a ship.

Idiom

bunk-bed each of two or more beds one above the other, forming a unit. bunk-house a house where workmen etc. are lodged.

bunk, n.

Idiom

do a bunk Brit. sl. leave or abscond hurriedly.

bunk, n. sl. nonsense, humbug.

Etymology

abbr. of BUNKUM

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THESAURUS

bunk

abide, abscond, applesauce, balderdash, balls, baloney, bed, bedstead, beguile, berth, bestow, betray, big talk, bilge, billet, blague, blah, blah-blah, board, bop, bosh, break, bull, bullshit, bunkum, claptrap, cohabit, couch, crap, decamp, delude, domicile, domiciliate, doss, doss down, double-cross, dwell, eyewash, fancy talk, fine talk, fish story, flam, flapdoodle, flee, flimflam, fly, four-flush, gammon, gas, guff, gup, gurney, hang out, harbor, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, house, humbug, humbuggery, hut, inhabit, jazz, jiggery-pokery, kip, litter, live, lodge, malarkey, mislead, moonshine, nest, occupy, perch, piffle, poppycock, put up, quarter, remain, reside, room, roost, rot, scape, scat, sell out, shelter, shit, sofa, squat, stable, stay, stretcher, tall story, tall talk, tenant, the hay, the sack, tommyrot, tripe, wind

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ROGET THESAURUS

bunk

Support

N support, ground, foundation, base, basis, terra firma, bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib, point d'appui, pou sto, purchase footing, hold, locus standi, landing place, landing stage, stage, platform, block, rest, resting place, groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention, floor, supporter, aid, prop, stand, anvil, fulciment, cue rest, jigger, monkey, stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage, sleeper, stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger, ratlings, staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle, bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick, post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster, pediment, pedicle, pedestal, plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle, buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment, baluster, banister, stanchion, balustrade, headstone, upright, door post, jamb, door jamb, frame, framework, scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel, joist, travis, trave, corner stone, summer, transom, rung, round, step, sill, angle rafter, hip rafter, cantilever, modillion, crown post, king post, vertebra, columella, backbone, keystone, axle, axletree, axis, arch, mainstay, trunnion, pivot, rowlock, peg, tiebeam, thole pin, board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack, mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf, slab, console, counter, dresser, flange, corbel, table, trestle, shoulder, perch, horse, easel, desk, clotheshorse, hatrack, retable, teapoy, seat, throne, dais, divan, musnud, chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall, arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair, couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench, aparejo, faldstool, horn, long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair, lamba chauki, lamba kursi, saddle, pannel, pillion, side saddle, pack saddle, pommel, bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead, four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang, bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse, pillow, bolster, mat, rug, cushion, footstool, hassock, tabouret, tripod, monopod, Atlas, Persides, Atlantes, Caryatides, Hercules, supporting, supported, fundamental, dorsigerous, astride on, straddle.

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