EGAVE

hunk

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A large or dense piece of something.
    a hunk of metal
  2. noun An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A honyock. (clarification of this definition is needed (obscure word with multiple senses used as definition, synonym list seems insufficient))
  5. noun A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.
  6. noun A goal or base in children's games.

Similar words

lump bite handful morsel nibble scrap fragment handhold man lot

Often followed by

of and in who with out like was anderson

Word family

hunks

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