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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bunk

1	n v	beds built one above the other provide with a bunk
2	n	a message that seems to convey no meaning
3	v	flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
4	n	a long trough for feeding cattle

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bunk

n beds built one above the other

Synonyms:: bunk bed

Type of:: bed
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

n a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

Synonyms:: berth, built in bed

Types:: lower, lower berth
the lower of two berths; upper, upper berth
the higher of two berths

Type of:: bed
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

n a rough bed (as at a campsite)

Type of:: bed
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

v provide with a bunk

“We bunked the children upstairs”

Type of:: bed
furnish with a bed

n a message that seems to convey no meaning

Synonyms:: hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality

Types:: show 24 types...; hide 24 types...; 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; crock
nonsense; foolish talk; fa la, fal la
meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong; gibber, gibberish
unintelligible talking; incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible; jabberwocky
nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll); flummery, mummery
meaningless ceremonies and flattery; empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric
loud and confused and empty talk; rigamarole, rigmarole
a set of confused and meaningless statements; schmegegge, shmegegge
(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense; hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense
senseless talk; baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
pretentious or silly talk or writing; word salad
jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia; abracadabra
gibberish and nonsense; babble, babbling, lallation
gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby; blather, blatherskite
foolish gibberish; double Dutch
an incomprehensible talk; double talk
deliberately unintelligible gibberish; gabble, jabber, jabbering
rapid and indistinct speech; mumbo jumbo
language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion

Type of:: content, message, subject matter, substance
what a communication that is about something is about

n unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

Synonyms:: buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot

Types:: Irish bull, bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, shit
obscene words for unacceptable behavior

Type of:: drivel, garbage
a worthless message

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

Synonyms:: break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; flee, fly, take flight
run away quickly; skedaddle
run away, as if in a panic; break
make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; stampede
run away in a stampede; abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; elope, run off
run away secretly with one's beloved; break loose, escape, get away
run away from confinement; high-tail
retreat at full speed; defect, desert
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

Type of:: go away, go forth, leave
go away from a place

v avoid paying

Synonyms:: beat

Type of:: cheat, chisel, rip off
deprive somebody of something by deceit

n a long trough for feeding cattle

Synonyms:: feed bunk

Type of:: manger, trough
a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed

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