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Definition of bung verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

bung

verb
 
/bʌŋ/
 
/bʌŋ/
(British English, informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bung
 
/bʌŋ/
 
/bʌŋ/
he / she / it bungs
 
/bʌŋz/
 
/bʌŋz/
past simple bunged
 
/bʌŋd/
 
/bʌŋd/
past participle bunged
 
/bʌŋd/
 
/bʌŋd/
-ing form bunging
 
/ˈbʌŋɪŋ/
 
/ˈbʌŋɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. bung something + adv./prep. to put or throw something somewhere, carelessly and quickly
    • Bung this in the bin, can you?
    Word Originverb early 19th cent.: symbolic; the noun sense dates from the 1950s.
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