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 Canadians, 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 ...
(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, 1879 – July 7, 1949) was an American prominent jazz trumpeter in New Orleans. Johnson gave the year of his birth as 1879, although there is speculation that he may have been younger by as much as a dec ...
(1879–1949), New Orleans jazz trumpeter
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Oscar Requer
Oscar "Rick" Requer is a former detective of the Baltimore Police Department.
Requer joined the department in 1964 as a Western District patrolman who would eventually move into the department's Homicide Unit.
He was featured working under Ser ...
(), nicknamed "The Bunk", a former Baltimore police detective upon whom the character Bunk Moreland (see below) is based
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Bunk Gardner
Bunk Gardner (born John Leon Guarnera; May 2, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American musician who most notably played for the original version of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention until the group disbanded in 1969. He plays woodwinds and tenor ...
, stage name of American musician John Leon Guarnera (born 1933), member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention
Surname
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Carsten Bunk
Carsten Bunk (born 29 February 1960) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 mill ...
(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 lifetime award-winning cartoonist known for adding multiple extraneous details to his posters, cartoons and illustrations created for both American and German publishers.
Early life
Tomas Maria Bunk was born ...
(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
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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 the Old World, it has been introduced to North America and Austra ...
, a plant also known as bunk
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Bunking (off), or bunk off, slang for truanting
See also
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Bunk bed
A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed frame is stacked on top of another, allowing two or more beds to occupy the floor space usually required by just one. They are commonly seen on ships, in the military, and in hostels, Dormitory, dor ...
, a type of bed in which one bed (or bunk) is stacked over another
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Bunk'd
''Bunk'd'' is an American Television comedy, comedy television series created by Pamela Eells O'Connell that premiered on Disney Channel on July 31, 2015. The series is a spinoff of ''Jessie (2011 TV series), Jessie'' and for the first three sea ...
'', a 2015 American comedy television series
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