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hulk

About 0.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A large ship used for transportation; a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre. A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
  2. noun A large ship used for transportation; a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
  3. noun A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
  4. noun A large structure with a dominating presence.
  5. noun A big (and possibly clumsy) person. An excessively muscled person.
  6. noun An excessively muscled person.
  7. verb To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk. To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
  8. verb To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.

Similar words

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Often followed by

of and hogan was in that at to with

Word family

hulked hulking hulks

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