Murphy bed

From inventor William L. Murphy + bed.

Murphy bed (plural Murphy beds)

1. (Canada, US) A light type of bed designed to be folded up or swung into a wall or closet for storage when not in use. [from 20th c.]
   • 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 104:

     We lived in just one room with a Murphy bed and a kitchen that looked out on the alley.

• bunk bed
• trundle bed

• “Murphy bed” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.