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bunk bed

phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A bunk bed is two sleeping places built one above the other. Sleep in a bunk bed.

It saves floor space, which is why it belongs to children's rooms, hostels and ships. The top bunk is the one children fight over and the one nobody over forty wants.

Miguel Andrade · Public domain

Definitions of bunk bed

  1. 1phrasebunk bedTwo sleeping places built one above the other; kids fight for the top.B1

    “The bunk bed took an afternoon to build and lasted three children.”

bunk bed is a bed.

Also accepted in games: bunk

Where it comes from

Bunk plus bed; bunk is an old word for a sleeping berth, probably of Scandinavian origin.

From bunk + bed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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