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bunk noun- nonsense US, 1900
- All that crap they have in cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post and all, showing guys on street corners looking sore as hell because their dates are late–that’s bunk. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, pp. 124–125, 1951
- When Mr. Money arrived at the airport, the grifter had him paged, then introduced himself with a bunk story, such as being a friend of hotel manager, who had asked him to pick up the boob. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 277, 1951
- To Johnny, that was bunk from a punk. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 77, 1975
- a weak drug, especially heroin US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 50, 1992
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 287, 1995
- a hiding place US
- I don’t see how anybody could know they were there. That’s a good bunk we have. — Hal Ellson, Tomboy, p. 24, 1950
- a prisoner’s cell or the area immediately around his bed in a dormitory setting US
- — Ethan Hilderbrant, Prison Slang, 1998
▶ do a bunk; pull a bunk to abscond, to run away UK, 1870- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 24, 1945
- Just trying to pull a bunk from the country and the place turns into Bosnia. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 206, 1997
- He’s just done a bunk. Sent a telegram to say he’s gone for ever. — Bill Naughton, The Day My Dad Ran Away, p. 272, 1999
- Haven’t seen him for ages because he did a bunk after rippin off Tommy Maguire[.] — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 47, 2002
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