(n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
(n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
(n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
(v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
Example Sentences:
(1) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
(2) A studio for three (which includes a set of bunk beds) during the same period, in Praia apartments, 9km from the Maracanã, is available for £7,819.
(3) Soldiers also spoke of how positive the experience had been – even if they had lost out on a bunk.
(4) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(5) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
(6) This was partly compensated for by a higher intake of bunk feedstuffs.
(7) He slept in a bunk bed in his parents’ home until, aged 24, he left to get married to another solicitor, Saadiya Ahmed.
(8) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
(9) The two groups of cows were housed in adjoining lots and fed identical rations from opposite sides of a feed bunk which provided .9 m linear feeding space per cow.
(10) In the barrack, the bunks were three on top of each other.
(11) Rationing of individual concentrates was according to parity, milk yield, milk yield potential, BW changes, and bunk feed-stuffs.
(12) Injuries occurred during sleep (19 children [29%]), getting in or out of the bunk bed (13 children [20%]), or playing in or near the beds (28 children [43%]).
(13) The Tories’ Corbyn attack video is absurd, paranoid and nasty – and will work | Jonathan Jones Read more Needless to say, both depictions are bunk.
(14) A control group of children who use bunk beds but who came to the emergency department for another reason were also interviewed.
(15) The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
(16) Among women with a duration of pregnancy between 37 and 42 gestational weeks procentual frequency, confidence intervals of O. Bunke, pounts of separability and areas of unsharpners were analysed.
(17) Numerous flights out of Wellington, Auckland and regional North Island centres have also been delayed or diverted due to the conditions, with passengers bunking down in the airport after being unable to find accommodation in the city.
(18) Many of them had to sleep on the floor to give holidaymakers their bunks.
(19) David Cameron shared a military bunk bed with former England player Michael Owen on their flight out to Afghanistan to promote a new football partnership aimed at boosting national spirit in the war-torn country.
(20) She conceded it would, observing that if visitors had the stamina to walk up the cursus or the avenue from the east, there would be nothing stopping them from bunking in without paying.
Slang
Definition:
() imp. of Sling. Slung.
(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
(n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
() of Sling
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(2) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(3) Downing Street, reluctant to become involved in a slanging match , offered no response to the announcement last night.
(4) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
(5) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
(6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
(7) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
(8) It was recommended that more attempts should be made to subdivide measures of social deviancy by means of slang as there is some evidence of possible further differentiation of subcultural types by means of slang.
(9) It was a piece of rag on which was written a message describing a "TOS", jailhouse slang for "terminate on sight".
(10) But it emerged afterwards he was simply using snowboarding slang, meaning to "go big".
(11) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
(12) In my role as a journalist working for TÊTU , the biggest French gay-oriented magazine, I used to think French society was mature enough to face such a debate without resorting to slanging matches.
(13) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
(14) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
(15) All the classic ingredients of tabloid fare are there: vast wealth, broken promises, honour, shame, "krysha" – Russian for "roof" but a slang term meaning "protection" – and a few chateaux, yachts and flamboyant women thrown in too.
(16) Richard McLaren receives ‘deluge’ of requests after Wada doping report Read more “I don’t want to get into a slanging match with the IOC about the way they’ve handled it.
(17) It turned into a slanging match in which the Iranians came to the assistance of the Russians.
(18) Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".
(19) Jungle don mature” [the jungle has matured] goes the Nigerian slang meaning: “the game is on.” It is a phrase on the lips of more than one Nigerian political commentator and aptly describes the tension as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for presidential elections just eight weeks away.
(20) Conrad also took Kimball to task for his lack of understanding of much of the slang Tsarnaev used in his tweets.