bunk

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It's cramped, we have bunk beds and sleeping bags.

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a long trough for feeding cattle

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bunk gathered in one view.

noun

a long trough for feeding cattle

noun

a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

noun

a rough bed (as at a campsite)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bunk.

noun

a long trough for feeding cattle

noun

a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

noun

a rough bed (as at a campsite)

noun

unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

See also: bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash

noun

a message that seems to convey no meaning

noun

beds built one above the other

verb

avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"

verb

provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

verb

flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

Example sentences

It's cramped, we have bunk beds and sleeping bags.

' "This is a peaceful and legal way of stating "This law is bunk, we won't help you enforce it.

It's literally a bunk bed with sides enclosed with cage wiring.

The only answer that's going to truly restore confidence and respect is to eliminate the bunk.

If you want any sort of public assistance you have to live in a big concrete dorm with rows of bunk beds and do menial labor.

The allegation that features or patches are withheld from the broader community is total bunk; the team at 10gen is dedicated, community-focused, and honest.

Fundamental assumptions such as "human beings are generally not, as a rule, criminally incompetent psychopaths".I'm sure most of the anti-nuclear crowd in Japan truly believes the bunk science that supports their stance.

But are you getting better results because the simulation is right, or because it was implicitly fit to the historical data?In machine learning terms, their training set and test set are the same, so odds are that the model is bunk.

So you think that all the reports dating back to the 60s when superhet transistor radios appered, are likely bunk?Wouldn't that imply a worldwide, secret pilot conspiracy, especially with incidents where the pilot has been able to reproduce the interference by asking the passengers to turn the device back on?It's certainly very unlikely that an iPod will cause any problems.