murphy bed

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   a bed that can be folded or swung into a cabinet when not being used

   Broaderbed

Questions about murphy bed

What does murphy bed mean?

murphy bed means "a bed that can be folded or swung into a cabinet when not being used".

Is murphy bed a common word?

murphy bed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.