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Meanings of bunk in English
Catalan
poca-soltada Spanish
disparate Portuguese
meter o rabo entre as pernas Catalan
escapolir-se Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
Synonyms
Examples for "run"
Examples for "run"
1
The banks' recent run of good form came to an end today.
2
This year the work will likely run out months earlier, Olson said.
3
The critical issue now is whether the run of good news continues.
4
I had run quite far and was a long way from home.
5
Rice said the two shows would run at different times of year.
1
Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe.
2
How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape?
3
Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote.
4
They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one.
5
Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order.
1
Cash and calls weren't the only thing Massino got on the lam.
2
Stinker is a bargee, but he was quite right to lam me.
3
We're both on the lam now. He glanced idly toward the woman.
4
I'm liable to lam your head off, threatened the big man sullenly.
5
De way that gal lam me across the head was a caution!
1
Most tourists want to see the animals, not the just the scat.
2
Tells how Mozart, Liszt, and Brahms used scat, and its modern development.
3
The tail end of a scat of rain beat on their faces.
4
Nodelman kept me waiting, without offering me a scat, a good half-hour.
5
I swear, the stuff tasted like armadillo scat mixed with swamp water.
1
But we can't give them a lick of warning or they'll scarper.
2
A commotion around the van followed and eventually the driver had to scarper.
3
We wait below, light fuses and scarper when the fuckin' train hits the bridge.
4
It's no wonder they scarper off so quickly.
5
Not like with Liz Stride, just a slash at the throat and a scarper in the dark.
1
Let us take to the woods and we will give them hell.
2
We cannot all take to the woods and swamps as Thoreau did.
3
I saw nothing for it but to take to the woods.
4
I always have a bite with me when I take to the woods.
5
For you and yours must even take to the woods for a while.
1
Didn't I give you six hours to fly the coop?
2
Because the goose was about to fly the coop.
3
We'll leave you here and fly the coop.
4
Just in case you were wondering where the expression ' fly the coop' comes from, they're amazing escape artists.
5
Or if I asked the same question differently, was there a connection between our raid on Charabi's office and Bian's decision to fly the coop?
1
It's time to break away from the failing and dysfunctional EU system.
2
The answer is not to break away, though, but to stay united.
3
Why does this province, specifically, want to break away from South Africa?
4
There's a strong possibility the Ukraine will break away and join him.
5
Anxiety and fear will remain until you deliberately break away and commit.
1
We came all the way across town to turn tail and run?
2
But he couldn't very well turn tail and bolt off the poop.
3
Half the children, upon seeing their leader turn tail and flee, followed suit.
4
Fala expected Kahg to turn tail and run, try to gain sky room.
5
He could not turn tail in the face of such an exalted opinion.
1
Common sense: I was supposed to run away, yell for help, etc.
2
Officials said he had run away from his family after an argument.
3
Tell her she should run away to sea and become a pirate.
4
You said you had no idea he was going to run away.
5
She wanted to believe Race's beautiful vision-thatthey could run away together.
1
That assault team will hightail it back to their base of operations.
2
I understand if you want to hightail it out of here.
3
They're afraid if they let on we're here, we'll hightail it somewhere else.
4
With this out-of-space drive they hightail it among the stars.
5
If you get into trouble, you can't just hightail it back inside the spaceship.
1
That likely the car would head for the hills, where the I.W.W.
2
That cat's gonna head for the hills the minute he sees an opportunity.
3
In a real revolt, the rich and powerful usually head for the hills, terrified.
4
When I tell him that, he'll head for the hills.
5
But remember, if you start a war, my friend, you better head for the hills.
Usage of bunk in English
1
The next moment the boy heard Thede moving in the bunk above.
2
In the darkness, cylinder in hand, I crept softly from the bunk.
3
When Harold was in his bunk the little maid was brought in.
4
Long, frightening howls carried by the wind into our open bunk windows.
5
The man in the bunk in the lumbermen's camp is wild again.
6
The packer raised himself in his bunk slowly, like one in pain.
7
I turned in, in the lower bunk, but I could not sleep.
8
He was assigned a bunk at the far end of the room.
9
I nodded, shambled down to the second bunk, and passed out immediately.
10
It was very quiet in the bunk-house when he opened his eyes.
11
The dim figure sat without invitation on the edge of the bunk.
12
He lay in the very bunk in which he had brained O'Sullivan.
13
At the bunk house, the comments were similar but more highly salted.
14
You were right at the foot of the bunk, so you could.
15
A lamp was burning low beside the bunk in which Pierre lay.
16
We could only cover you over when you were in the bunk.
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Translations for bunk
Catalan
Bunk through the time
Bunk across language varieties
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