DCHP-3

shotgun bunk

Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of bunk placed in banks at right angles to the wall so that the user must crawl in head first and out feet first (as in charging a muzzle-loading gun).

Quotations

1963
Most of them [bunkhouses] had what were called shotgun bunks. Those were on tiers of three high and placed close beside each other. The only way to get in was to crawl in the bottom like going into a tunnel.