bunk bed
Americannoun
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a piece of furniture consisting of two single platformlike beds connected one above the other.
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either of these two beds.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bunk bed
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Who’ll get up the bunk bed ladder first?
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
The childhood bunk bed was a technicolour dreamcoat of late-night results, felt tip pen scribbled on the oak-stained frame a record of who was winning the ultimate, never-ending championship of brotherly video game encounters.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
He refers to his space as a “mouse nest,” a darkened corner he has created by draping curtains around his bunk bed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
She stretched her arms out wide when she slept so that they dangled over the edge of the bunk bed.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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