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"text": "Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.",
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"ref": "1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad",
"text": "The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]",
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"word": "letto a castello"
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"text": "What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.",
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"ref": "1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47",
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"ref": "1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation",
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"(obsolete) In early use often in the form the bunk."
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"ref": "2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$ (lyrics and music), “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours, 1:26–1:28",
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