bunk

1. 1.

   avoid paying

   “beat the subway fare”

   Synonymsbeat

   Broadercheat
2. 2.

   provide with a bunk

   “We bunked the children upstairs”

   Broaderbed
3. 3.

   flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

   “If you see this man, run!”

   “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

   Synonymsscatrunscarperturn taillamrun awayhightail ithead for the hillstake to the woodsescapefly the coopbreak away

   Broaderleave

   Narrowerfleeskedaddle

Other forms of bunk

plural

bunks·

past tense

bunked·

present participle

bunking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bunk

What does bunk mean?

bunk means "a long trough for feeding cattle". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bunk?

bunk has 1 syllable: bunk. In IPA it is /ˈbʌŋk/.

What is another word for bunk?

Close synonyms include feed bunk, berth, built in bed, bunkum, buncombe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunk a common word?

bunk is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bunk?

1 word rhymes with bunk. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.