Bunk may refer to:
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People
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Bunk Congalton
William Millar "Bunk" Congalton (January 24, 1875 – August 19, 1937) was a Canadian right fielder in Major League Baseball. A native of Guelph, Ontario, he stood 5'11" and weighed 190 lbs.
Congalton was a minor league star who twice led ...
(1875–1937), Canadian Major League Baseball player
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Bunk Henderson, American Negro league catcher in 1925
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Bunk Johnson
Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson (December 27, 1889 – July 7, 1949) was an American prominent jazz trumpeter from New Orleans.
Biography
Birth
Johnson gave the year of his birth as 1879, although Johnson stated on his 1937 application for Socia ...
(1879–1949), New Orleans jazz trumpeter
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Oscar Requer (), nicknamed "The Bunk", a former Baltimore police detective upon whom the character Bunk Moreland (see below) is based
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Bunk Gardner, stage name of American musician John Leon Guarnera (born 1933), a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention
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Carsten Bunk (born 1960), German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics
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Leo Bunk (born 1962), German former footballer
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Tom Bunk
Tom Bunk (born 17 December 1945) is a cartoonist known for adding multiple extraneous details to his posters, cartoons and illustrations created for both American and German publishers.
Career
In 1973, he moved to Berlin, where he began renderin ...
(born 1945), American cartoonist
Arts and entertainment
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''Bunk'' (TV series), a 2012 television show on the Independent Film Channel
* "Bunk", an episode of the television series
''CSI: Miami'' (season 1)
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''Bunk'' (book), a 2017 book by Kevin Young
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Bunk Moreland
William "Bunk" Moreland is a fictional character in ''The Wire'', played by Wendell Pierce. Bunk's character is based on a retired Baltimore detective named Oscar "The Bunk" Requer. He is portrayed as a generally competent, if profane and curmud ...
, a character on the HBO drama series ''The Wire''
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''Bunks'' (film), a 2013 Canada television film
Other uses
* bunk, the bed frame of a
bunk bed
A bunk bed or set of bunks
is a type of bed in which one bed frame (a bunk) is stacked on top of another bed, allowing two or more sleeping-places to occupy the floor space usually required by just one. Bunks are commonly seen on ships, in th ...
, a type of bed
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Chicory
Common chicory (''Cichorium intybus'') is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Native to Europe, it has been introduced to the Americas and Australia.
M ...
, a plant also known as bunk
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Bunking (off), or bunk off, slang for truanting
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bunkum, shortened to bunk: nonsense (see
Buncombe County, North Carolina: History)
See also
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Bunk'd
''Bunk'd'' is an American comedy television series created by Pamela Eells O'Connell that originally aired on Disney Channel from July 31, 2015 to August 2, 2024. The series is a spinoff of '' Jessie'' and for the first three seasons includes r ...
'', a 2015 American comedy television series
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