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Definition of Bunk down
1. Verb. Go to bed. "We bedded down at midnight"
Specialized synonyms: Crash, Doss, Doss Down
Generic synonyms: Bed, Crawl In, Go To Bed, Go To Sleep, Hit The Hay, Hit The Sack, Kip Down, Retire, Sack Out, Turn In
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunk Down
Literary usage of Bunk down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1869)
"... they have nevel bunk down to degradation; whereas the very eame sins, branded
with public shame, have sunk others not worse than them down to the lowest ..."
2. Driven from Sea to Sea; Or, Just a Campin'. by Charles Cyrel Post (1884)
"It was too late to think of doing anything except to make a cup of coffee and
bunk down in the easiest way possible for the night. ..."
3. War Reminiscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns by John Singleton Mosby (1911)
"I was sick myself, and as I lay in a bunk down on the lower deck, looking out a
small porthole at the huge billows, feeling very miserable, ..."
4. An Inverted Sort of Prayer by Chris F. Needham (2006)
"Through die bunk, down through the floor of the barge and the canal, I felt
somewhere an engine start, feeling it engage and accelerate, moving steadily up ..."
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