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; -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
When I finally nailed a roast chicken — buttered and oiled, stuffed with lemon wedges and hunks of onion and fennel — I felt like a goddess.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
The cow’s milk variety is delicate, buttery, and lightly cured, with a creamy, spreadable consistency that’s dreamy on hunks of sourdough.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
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
Anyway, I kept worrying that I was getting pneumonia, with all those hunks of ice in my hair, and that I was going to die.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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