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lunk

British  
/ lʌŋk /

noun

  1. an awkward, heavy, or stupid person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A lunk of a guy goes out to the barn behind his house every night and tosses a metal ball as far as he can.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024

The “Dude” skin is a super beef-ified version of Ryan Reynolds’ character Guy and looks like the kind of person who routinely sets off the lunk alarm at Planet Fitness.

From The Verge • Aug. 12, 2021

Sylvester Stallone voices King Shark, who is described as "counter-intuitively lovable, if lethal, lunk".

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2021

Lift with some danged pulley system involving fulcrums and levers and inclined planes, or, better yet, just hire some dumb lunk.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

"In cold words you feel that no untrained lunk has a right to have an idea."

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver

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