What does bunk-up mean?

bunk-up

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English

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British usage; Informal

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"Give us a bunk-up and I'll get your ball back."
"You don't feel like a bit of a bunk-up this evening, Stubby, by any chance?"
"Smoking should only be done glamorously, at will readings or during multimillion-dollar jewellery heists, or wretchedly, in Paris, lamenting an extramarital bunk-up—so let’s have none of that."

bunk-ups (plural)

leg up

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