hunks
Americannoun
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a crabbed, disagreeable person.
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a covetous, stingy person; miser.
noun
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a crotchety old person
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a miserly person
Etymology
Origin of hunks
1595–1605; origin uncertain; cf. -s 4
Example Sentences
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There is so much demand for these hunks of carbon fiber that bats have entered the stratosphere of products known in the retail industry as “high heat.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
These hunks of gently cooked fish and venison took up most of my freezer and cost a fortune, but I felt virtuous knowing that my dog was eating “human grade” fare.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
A perfectly executed send-up of the loud, hyper, over-the-top TV ads that have driven generations of kiddos to beg their parents to purchase hunks of plastic shaped like muscular heroes and ferocious monsters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
There is something archaic about these massive, welded hunks of steel, that seemed to have their heyday in the Pacific War of the 1940s.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2025
“Now I’m going to picture big hunks of thumb in our rice.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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