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Hunk

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large or dense piece of something.

    "a hunk of metal"

  2. 2
    A goal or base in children's games. US
  3. 3
    a large piece of something without definite shape wordnet
  4. 4
    An attractive man, especially one who is muscular. informal

    "The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew."

  5. 5
    a well-built sexually attractive man wordnet
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  1. 6
    A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
  2. 7
    A honyock. US, slang

    ""You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

Etymology 2

From Dutch honk (“the base in a game”).

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