Definition

1. Noun:

   • A collection of items tied or wrapped together: A group of objects bound or packaged as a single unit for carrying, storing, or selling.
   • A large amount of money (informal): A significant sum, especially as profit or payment.

2. Verb:

   • To tie or wrap items together into a compact group: To gather and secure things into a bundle.
   • To push or send someone or something quickly and unceremoniously: To move or dispatch in a hurried, often rough, manner.
   • (Archaic) To sleep in one's clothes, especially with another person, as a historical courting custom.

Usage and Examples

• Noun:
  • She carried a bundle of firewood into the house.
  • He earned a bundle from that business deal.
• Verb:
  • Please bundle the newspapers for recycling.
  • They bundled the children into the car and drove off.
  • (Historical) In some traditions, couples would bundle during courtship.

Advanced Usage

• "to be a bundle of nerves": To be extremely nervous or anxious.
  • Before the speech, she was a bundle of nerves.
• "to bundle someone off/out": To send or escort someone away quickly.
  • He was bundled off to boarding school at a young age.

Variants and Related Words

• Bundling (n): The act of making a bundle. Also refers to the historical practice or, in commerce, selling products together as a package.
  • The bundling of software with a new computer is common.
• Bundled (adj): Sold or provided together in a package.
  • The phone comes with a bundled case and charger.

Synonyms

• Noun (for items): Bunch, package, parcel, packet.
• Noun (for money): Fortune, pile, packet (informal).
• Verb (to tie): Bind, wrap, pack, truss.
• Verb (to push hurriedly): Hurry, hustle, shove.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Bundle up:
  • To dress warmly in many layers of clothing.

    • You should bundle up; it's freezing outside.
  • To tie or wrap items into a bundle.

    • We need to bundle up these old magazines.
• Bundle into: To put or push someone or something into a place quickly and without ceremony.
  • We bundled the groceries into the trunk.

Related Idioms

• A bundle of joy: A baby (used to express that a baby brings happiness).
  • They welcomed a bundle of joy into their family.
• A bundle of laughs: Someone or something that is very amusing (often used sarcastically).
  • Oh, he's a real bundle of laughs at parties. (Sarcastic)

Noun

1. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
   • she made a bundle selling real estate
   • they sank megabucks into their new house
2. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
3. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together

Verb

1. sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed
2. compress into a wad
   • wad paper into the box
3. gather or cause to gather into a cluster
   • She bunched her fingers into a fist
4. make into a bundle
   • he bundled up his few possessions