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Meanings of hunk in English

Portuguese
fragmento
Spanish
pedazo

A large piece of something without definite shape.

        fragmento

        Protein-coding gene in the species Danio rerio.

              Usage of hunk in English
              1
              It just felt good, you know, swingin' that solid hunk a' steel.
              World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
              2
              He came back carrying Archer's red typewriter and a hunk of paper.
              Archer’s Goon
              3
              Go get her!' The 38-year-old hunk knew he had to act quickly.
              News.com.au
              4
              We're sitting inside the most expensive hunk of consumer technology we own.
              The Guardian
              5
              An important hunk of millennial culture is about to be reanimated online.
              The Irish Times
              6
              C'mon, a hunk of wall was stolen out of an office building?
              The god machine
              7
              When you're alive, you want to hang onto your hunk of blue.
              The new yorker
              8
              I dated this beautiful hunk of flesh for the next eight months.
              My horizontal life: a collection of one-night stands
              9
              A hunk of burning wood landed on the roof of the assayer's.
              Sympathy for the devil
              10
              Beautifully made and impressively propulsive, Joker is one impressive hunk of nihilism.
              The Irish Times
              11
              I tore a hunk off the bread and a lump of cheese.
              Sovereign
              12
              I might as well have been holding a hunk of scrap metal.
              Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
              13
              That old hunk of glass is more valuable than you might think.
              Wired
              14
              He turned his back on her and she bit a hunk out.
              Lonesome dove
              15
              She got out her dagger and cut me a hunk of meat.
              Enclave
              16
              Rosalind knocked harder and scraped a hunk of skin from her knuckles.
              The spurned viscountess
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              Translations for hunk
              Spanish
              pedazo
              Hunk through the time
              Hunk across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common