1
: a large lump, piece, or portion
a hunk of bread
2
: an attractive and usually well-built man
Examples of hunk in a Sentence
a steak cut into meaty hunks
That actor is such a hunk!
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The towering hunk of metal joins a small but growing army of Transformers.
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Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024
And yet the charismatic hunk of granite has been drawing all kinds of people for centuries, if not millennia.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
He’s made to sound like a hunk in a romance novel—heavily muscled, symmetrically proportioned, so frequently shirtless that his skin had darkened.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
The 90-pound hunk of space junk could belong to SpaceX, said one property owner.
—Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 4 June 2024
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Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024
And yet the charismatic hunk of granite has been drawing all kinds of people for centuries, if not millennia.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
He’s made to sound like a hunk in a romance novel—heavily muscled, symmetrically proportioned, so frequently shirtless that his skin had darkened.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
The 90-pound hunk of space junk could belong to SpaceX, said one property owner.
—Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 4 June 2024
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“Hunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunk. Accessed 30 Jun. 2024.
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hunk
noun1
: a large lump or piece
2
: a male who is physically very attractive
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