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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hunk
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lump/hunk of cheese (=a large piece)
▪ We just had bread and a hunk of cheese for lunch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For lunch I had cheese with a hunk of bread and a glass of red wine.
▪ Jack cut off a hunk of meat and handed it to Simon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Comets are hunks of dirt and ice with elongated orbits that take them from the outer solar system to near the sun.
▪ He reached the large block of offices, at least eighty firms doing business within this hunk of concrete and glass.
▪ He turned round, offering me a hunk of bread and margarine with cheese on top - real luxury.
▪ Her eyes lit up as she spotted Spartacus hunk Kirk-at 83 just a year her junior and pictured right.
▪ Just pick up the nearest hunk of high-priced technology you have on hand and hurl it against the wall.
▪ Lifting the heavy hunks of metal over the chain-link fence seemed improbable and buyers of black-market bronzes are scarce.
▪ The final project was a still life with all these objects in it as well as a small hunk of plastic ham.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hunk

Hunk \Hunk\, n. [Cf. Hunch.]

  1. A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

  2. a sexually attractive, well-built man.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hunk

1813, "large piece cut off," possibly from West Flemish hunke (used of bread and meat), which is perhaps related to Dutch homp "lump, hump." Meaning "attractive, sexually appealing man" is first attested 1945 in jive talk (in Australian slang, it is recorded from 1941).

Wiktionary
hunk

n. 1 A large or dense piece of something. 2 (context informal English) A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular. 3 (context computing English) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. patch are made up of hunks. 4 (context US slang English) A honyock.

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WordNet
hunk

  1. n. a well-built sexually attractive man

  2. a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" [syn: lump]

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Wikipedia
Hunk

Hunk may refer to:

  • A beefcake, a slang term for a sexually appealing or well-muscled man
  • Hunk, portrayed by Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow's Kansas counterpart in MGM's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz
  • Hunk (Resident Evil), a video game character appearing in the Resident Evil series
  • Hunk (Voltron), a member of the Voltron Force
  • Hunk (film), a 1987 comedy movie starring John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, James Coco, and Avery Schreiber
  • Amiga Hunk, a codename for AmigaOS executable files
  • The Hunks a reality television series
  • Hero Honda Hunk, a 150 cc motorcycle launched by Hero Honda Motors India Ltd
Hunk (film)

Hunk is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Lawrence Bassoff, and stars John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, James Coco and Deborah Shelton.

Usage examples of "hunk".

Big jagged hunks of azurite and turquoise decorating the floor erupted through the white stone ocean like fangs tearing through flesh.

With a dozen strokes of the knife, a Blucher would free a large hunk of flesh and throw it down to one of the women.

Tentacles slammed against the platform, knocking Ganner half off his feet, chipping away head-sized hunks of coral.

These two nitwits must be trying to turn themselves into hunks to hold on to their jobs.

But, after nipping off several choice hunks, the creature had no trouble regaining flight by running the length of the neck and flapping its massive furred wings a couple of times.

With his long arms, he was carrying a silver tray laden with hunks of meat.

Tearing with stone claws, it ripped more hunks loose, bit through them, slammed them down, hurled them away.

Set on stones were elven winter rations and fresh game: oat cakes with salt and maple syrup, dried herring, hunks of deer and bear and bison, even barrels of ale and a trough of spring water.

Putrid hunks of flesh and decomposing organs fell into the dirt until finally the decay crept up his neck.

They kicked aside hunks and shards of ice, then grabbed a torch from one of the wall sconces.

She forgot them as she struggled in the cramped space of the pit, covered with blood and mud, backing out hunks of meat and trying not to damage the hide any worse than it was.

Ayla looked at the last two hunks of meat, washed of mud in the stream, and reached for one.

The short length of chain that connected the two hunks of wood lay on top of his shoulder.

Round about me there was womanlessness, jawlines, crewcuts, hunks leathered up like frogmen, Adam in full stubble and muscle and sweat.

In the silence of the guest room I settled into the chair, sighed, and popped one of the pizza hunks into my mouth.