bunk-up

to give someone a bunk-up to give someone a competitive advantage in order to help them get on better than they would otherwise have done

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Translations

bunk-up

[ˌbʌŋkˈʌp] N to give sb a bunk-up → ayudar a algn a subir

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

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Now we know his reputation was well earned after he admitted this week that a bunk-up in a restaurant broom cupboard, which resulted in a daughter, lasted just FIVE seconds.

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