bunk v.3
1. to cheat, to deceive, esp. through verbal trickery.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Dict. Americanisms (4th edn) 84: To bunk [...] among lumbermen, to pile wood deceitfully so as to increase the apparent quantity in the survey. | |
| Billy Baxter’s Letters 76: Somebody sold Dick six tickets at a dollar per for a ball that had been given over a month ago [...] Upon learning that he had been bunked, Dick became very dignified. | |
| A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 40: Baby Jack’s aunt who yesterday filed an affidavit to the effect that Tobasco bunked her into influencing her nephew to confess. | |
| Torchy 169: And you should have heard [...] all about the awful things they did at prep school, how they bunked the masters, and smuggled brandied peaches up to their rooms. | |
| Vocab. Criminal Sl. 21: bunk [...] To employ misrepresentation; to defraud; to cheat; to establish confidential relations with intent to abuse the influence so acquired. Example: ‘The frame-up in the play was to bunk the sucker with protection and scare team work.’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 4/1: You’ ve bunked the German nation / With bull-corn as a ration. | |
| ‘Haircut’ in Coll. Short Stories (1941) 31: There was no answer and it must of came to her all of a sudden that she’d been bunked. | |
| (con. 1910s) Young Lonigan in Studs Lonigan (1936) 75: He’s always trying to bunk a guy. | |
| Brain Guy (1937) 191: No use bunking about it. | |
| Chicago Trib. 9 May I 24/7: [I] couldn’t possibly have done a better job of bunking the American people than this fellow [DA]. | |
| Show Biz from Vaude to Video 30: When Rogers introduced his new act in 1911, he told his audience: ‘I’ve been getting away with this junk for so long that I thought you would get wise to me sooner or later, so I went and dug up a little new stuff with which to bunk you for a few more years’. |
2. to overcome completely, lit. to reduce to ‘nonsense.’.
| Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xv: I got every John in town so bunked that every time they see me coming they take it on the run for some place that I can’t get to ’em. | |
| Phila. Inquirer 15 Apr. in Unforgettable Season (1981) 40: Mathewson had bunked those Phillies. |