Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bundle n.2

[the participants have been ‘bundled’ together]

1. a fight.

[UK]J. Curtis They Drive by Night 174: Pity they didn’t know how to fight or we might of had a nice little bundle.
[UK]R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 132: ‘They’re having a bundle, sounds like,’ he says [...] They was fighting quiet, which was worse. Not a sound except fists going home.
[UK]G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 295: That O’Toole, ’e’s looking for a bull-and-a-cow to end all rows, a proper bundle.
[UK]T.K. Martin Z Cars (1963) 35: He’s all right in a bundle.
[UK]F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 12: Looks like there’s been a bundle in the library.
[UK]S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 92: Any villain that doth take a fancy to him / for a bout of bundle round the back.
[UK]J. Hoskison Inside 74: There was a general bundle. Had part of his ear bit off.
[UK]K. Richards Life 55: These mad mass bundles would go on in the playing fields [...] nobody got hurt.

2. sexual intercourse [note 18C–19C SE bundle, to sleep in one’s clothes on the same bed or couch with].

[UK]J. Cameron It Was An Accident 62: You want tea or coffee or tequila or a bit of bundle on the settee?