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bunk verb- to abscond or play truant, usually from school or work UK, 1934
Also to “bunk off”. - He [a 12-year-old boy] bunks off full time from education these days. — Time Out, p. 15, 8 January 1982
- Shaun and Bez, the working-class bohemians, doing drugs and bunking off around Europe[.] — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 62, 1999
- There’s still a bit of the 1970s teenager in us: a slaggy, cider-drinking and bunking off school mentality. — The Times, 8 April 2003
- to sleep, to stay the night US, 1840
Introduces a military or Western feel. - Or you can bunk out in the Rumpus Room. It doesn’t matter to me. — Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, p. 203, 1994
- to travel without a ticket UK
- I have to bunk the train up to London[.] — Gavin Hills, White Burger Danny (Disco Biscuits), p. 76, 1996
- bunking the train into Paddington and legging it through the barriers — John King, Human Punk, p. 1461, 2000
- to carry a passenger on the cross-bar of a bicycle AUSTRALIA
- — Sydney J. Baker, The Drum, 1959
- to hide something US
- “I hope the cigarettes we bunked last night don’t get wet,” she said, avoiding his eyes. — Hal Ellson, Tomboy, p. 12, 1950
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