verb. (common).—1. To be off; to decamp: also TO DO A BUNK.
c. 1870. Broadside Ballad. ‘Peck’s Bad Boy.’ The keeper tried to catch him, but the bad boy did a BUNK. Ibid., 1872. ‘Oh, we are a getting on.’ There’s another bald-headed Manageer, Has BUNKED across to Spain.
1885. Referee, 16 Feb., 7, 3. It was just such a parcel, bless him! he’d clasped to his noble breast, And BUNKED with out o’ the building.
1887. Fun, 9 Nov. 201. ‘What is a vanishing point?’ said the schoolmaster to little Billy. ‘The corner you BUNKS round when the “slops” after yer,’ warbled the golden-haired child.
1901. Troddles, 35. You can BUNK a bit, when its forty shillings or a month at stake, with sweet liberty as the crown of the award.
1900. KIPLING, Stalky & Co., 45. Any fool could hive told you where Manders would BUNK TO.
2. (Wellington College).—To expel [from the school].
