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UK
/tʃˈʌŋk/
]
[ US /ˈtʃəŋk/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃəŋk/ ]
VERB
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put together indiscriminately
lump together all the applicants - group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
NOUN
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a compact mass
a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder -
a substantial amount
we won a chunk of money
How To Use chunk In A Sentence
- What's more, the prospect of one of the most important chunks of Britain's transport infrastructure being sold soon riled a good deal of nationalistic tub-thumping.
- As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
- Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
- Have you ever innocently bitten into a chunk of cayenne pepper in a spicy stir-fry?
- At this stage we need to get input from the person responsible for doing this chunk of the project.
- Wellbrook was a chunky, solid man in his fifties with big bushy eyebrows. LET NOT THE DEEP
- The 320 million of annual cost savings pencilled for the combined entity would represent a decent chunk of added value. Times, Sunday Times
- And then you've got the work in the luxury saloon sector, where people are phoning out for still bigger pieces of aluminium and ordering up even larger chunks of birchwood, in accordance with a mission to go faster, fatter.
- Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
- The discovery of a small planetoid in the Kuiper belt, the distant disk of debris whose chunks eventually formed the solar system, make Pluto's chances of holding onto its status of bona fide planet weaker.