hunk
/hʌŋk
/noun
1A large piece of something, especially food, cut or broken off a larger piece: a hunk of bread...
- By using knives and forks to cut food into smaller pieces, we no longer need a large enough jaw to cram in big hunks of food.
- The blast, not far from diplomatic quarters and the king's main palace, left piles of rubble, hunks of twisted metal, broken glass and a large crater.
- As they turned to face their attacker, they were met with a spread of missiles that sent them flying back in tangled hunks of shrapnel.
Synonyms
chunk, large piece, slab, wedge, block, lump, mass, square, gobbet, dollop, portion;
Scottish dod
British informal wodge
North American informal gob
rare nub
2 informal A large, strong, sexually attractive man: a Hollywood hunk...
- This is a woman whose man-meeting strategy is to go on cruises and toss herself overboard to attract rescue-minded hunks.
- After Jan grows up to be a young hunk, he too attracts the attention of the fairer sex.
- Would you vote for an unapologetically sexually aggressive hunk, however past his prime?
Synonyms
muscleman, strongman, macho, macho man, iron man, Hercules, Atlas, Samson, Tarzan
informal tough guy, he-man, beefcake, stud, bruiser
North American informal studmuffin
Origin
Early 19th century: probably of Dutch or Low German origin.
Rhymes
- hilar
- hilarious
- hilariously
- hilariousness
- hilarity
- Hilary, St
- Hilary term
- Hilbert space
- Hilda, St
- Hildegard of Bingen, St
- Hildesheim
- Hiligaynon
- hill
- Hillary, Sir Edmund
- Hill, Benny
- hillbilly
- hill climb
- hill-climber
- hill-climbing
- Hill, Damon
- hill farming
- hill figure
- hill fort
- Hill, Graham
- wheedlingly