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US
/ˈhəŋk/
]
[ UK /hˈʌŋk/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌŋk/ ]
NOUN
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a large piece of something without definite shape
a hunk of bread
a lump of coal - a well-built sexually attractive man
How To Use hunk In A Sentence
- 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.
- Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
- 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.
- It was the size of a monkey's fist and flew into the kitchen window with a thunk.
- 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.
- Consumers remain hunkered down, and the Federal Reserve is nearly tapped out in providing monetary stimulus, so it can't replicate the sharp cuts in interest rates that gave the economy a big lift in the 1980s. Lessons of Reagan's Rebound
- 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.