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Hunk   /həŋk/   Listen
Hunk

noun
1.
A well-built sexually attractive man.
2.
A large piece of something without definite shape.  Synonym: lump.  "A lump of coal"






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"Hunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode. I've met a good many object-bound citizens of this country abroad. I've seen men from Chicago sit in a gondola in Venice on a moonlight night and brag about their drainage canal. I've ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry

... ask her whether she wanted him to bring her a piece of the "chalklut" cake or a hunk of the "cokernut," but he got no farther. Nobody noticed it; but Eddie and Pheeny were consumed with shame and slunk home scarlet. Nobody ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... that.' The laws of bush hospitality may not be violated. Food must be given even to an enemy—provided he be white. McKeith called to the Chinaman to bring out beef and bread. A lump of salt junk and a hunk of bread were handed ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... know his latest? Well, he goes over to the Selig place one day and watches horse meat fed to the lions and says to himself that horses have plenty of hair, and it must be the fat under the skin that makes it grow, so he begs for a hunk of horse from just under the mane and he's rubbing that on. You can't tell what he'll bring home next. The old boy still believes you can raise hair from the dead. Do you want some new stills of me? I got a new one yesterday that shows my other ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson

... "Yes: git a hunk o' bacon an' some canned corn, tomatoes, an' some canned salmon; if y' think we can stand the pressure, bring home ...
— A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen • Hamlin Garland


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