bunk bed

noun

1. a piece of furniture consisting of two single platformlike beds connected one above the other.

2. either of these two beds.

bunk bed

noun

1. one of a pair of beds constructed one above the other

Word History and Origins

Origin of bunk bed¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

He refers to his space as a “mouse nest,” a darkened corner he has created by draping curtains around his bunk bed.

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The bathrooms smelled of sewer, and the boys used the same bunk beds Sánchez slept in more than 40 years before.

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Faith Dunn, clad in a green tracksuit, entered the cavernous room full of bunk beds with hundreds of contestants in the highly competitive second season of “Squid Game: The Challenge.”

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Behind that door was room for all 535 members of Congress, with meeting chambers and rows of metal bunk beds.

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There, on the shores of the Black Sea, we’d stayed at the latest iteration of the stylish Rooms chain, where our quarters resembled a chic ship’s cabin, complete with bunk beds.

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