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hulk
[ huhlk ]
noun
- the body of an old or dismantled ship.
- a ship specially built to serve as a storehouse, prison, etc., and not for sea service.
- a clumsy-looking or unwieldy ship or boat.
- a bulky or unwieldy person, object, or mass.
- the shell of a wrecked, burned-out, or abandoned vehicle, building, or the like.
verb (used without object)
- to loom in bulky form; appear as a large, massive bulk (often followed by up ):
The bus hulked up suddenly over the crest of the hill.
- British Dialect. to lounge, slouch, or move in a heavy, loutish manner.
hulk
/ ʌ /
noun
- the body of an abandoned vessel
- derogatory.a large or unwieldy vessel
- derogatory.a large ungainly person or thing
- often plural the frame or hull of a ship, used as a storehouse, etc, or (esp in 19th-century Britain) as a prison
verb
- informal.intr to move clumsily
- introften foll byup to rise massively
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hulk1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hulk1
Example Sentences
Crews on another hulking piece of equipment, called a jumbo, used compressed-air drills to bore dozens of holes, which were packed with blasting power and detonated to pierce the rock.
Computers were ugly hulking gray or beige boxes then, taking up so much desk space.
The shuttered factories hulked over degrading neighborhoods like cavernous empty shells.
Kings Canyon National Park is only a five-hour drive from Los Angeles and boasts a glacier-carved valley, a roaring river, hulking granite mountains, massive ancient trees and countless waterfalls.
Looking down at the top of the hulking piece of jewelry, the team’s LA logo is spelled out in blue gems, with a bed of oval-shaped diamonds serving as a backdrop.
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