1
: a large lump, piece, or portion
a hunk of bread
2
: an attractive and usually well-built man
Examples of hunk in a Sentence
a steak cut into meaty hunks
That actor is such a hunk!
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Texas Ordering amid the heat and smoke of Kreuz’s massive pit room, where the countermen pull giant hunks of beef brisket and shoulder clod from the brick pits and carve them on round butcher blocks, remains an essential Texas barbecue experience.
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Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
When this world was catastrophically interrupted by a hunk of space trash some 30 million years later, in the cinematic end-Cretaceous mass extinction, the mammals would inherit not only the Earth but the climate of the dinosaurs as well.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
This yuckster attitude was apparently contagious, because Gray herself got in on the act on a day in which she was scheduled to kiss the young hunk Christopher Atkins, who had a recurring role for one season as a camp counselor.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
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Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
When this world was catastrophically interrupted by a hunk of space trash some 30 million years later, in the cinematic end-Cretaceous mass extinction, the mammals would inherit not only the Earth but the climate of the dinosaurs as well.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
This yuckster attitude was apparently contagious, because Gray herself got in on the act on a day in which she was scheduled to kiss the young hunk Christopher Atkins, who had a recurring role for one season as a camp counselor.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Hunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunk. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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hunk
noun1
: a large lump or piece
2
: a male who is physically very attractive
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