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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
/ hʌlk /
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
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Example Sentences
A he-spider hulk at 8 millimeters barely reaches half the length of small females.
When he looked back, he saw an enormous hulk of brown fur heading toward Pieciul.
You can be the Incredible Hulk, but all that extra power doesn’t help you get out of a chair any faster.
In the near distance, the decaying hulk of RFK Stadium loomed.
In moments of duress, a different self manifests with acts of destruction: unleashed id in Freudian, or Incredible Hulk, terms.
Hulk has a more prominent role, and I have a more prominent role.
I just have this personal mental obsession with the Hulk being an Asian-American male icon.
Whenever I take a clickbait quiz to determine which of The Avengers I would be, I always game the questions to aim for the Hulk.
He disallowed a goal scored by Hulk that would have given Brazil a 2-1 lead.
But as no junk-man came, and as no one could be found to care for its now sadly battered hulk, its good riddance became a problem.
A few minutes before she had been a stately three-masted frigate; now she was a helpless hulk.
You've put in good work to-night all right, and saved this old hulk from drifting into harbour.
It was on such a night that a great black hulk moved like a sable monster through the waters off the coast of Cuba.
She is a dirty commonplace hulk, packed with men in soiled clothes, no longer the radiant white ship of our vision.
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