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bunk bed

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noun

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

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Origin of bunk bed

First recorded in 1950–55
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for bunk bed

  • He layed down on that bunk-bed, close to the ox stalls, where he always slept.

    My Antonia|Willa Cather
British Dictionary definitions for bunk bed

bunk bed

noun

one of a pair of beds constructed one above the other
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