chunk

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But the chunk is all used up when he wakes up at the end of the winter, and then he is very hungry again But there is a kind of bear that lives in a place where there is snow and ice almost all the time.

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  1. noun A thick mass or piece: a chunk of ice.
  2. noun Informal A substantial amount: won quite a chunk of money.
  3. noun A strong stocky horse.
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  • The biggest chunk -- $1.8 billion -- will go to the state's Medicaid program. —  News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
  • Officials estimate at about 28,000 the number of people homeless from Monday's earthquake, with a large chunk -- 18,000 -- scraping by in tent villages with a dearth of hot water, showers and electricity.
  • There goes a chunk -- the sick and aged along with the huge apparatus of doctors, social workers, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies, and manufacturers of sophisticated medical equipment, which service their clients at enormous cost but don't help them very much. —  How to Save the World
  • NOT common step: chunk, chunk, chunk (3 mos) concept: the beauty of pirate ships strategies lead gen | awareness customer service | diy —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus. —  True Blue Liberal
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

lump ·  bit ·  slab ·  slice ·  fragment ·  shard ·  pile ·  hunk ·  scrap ·  strip ·  layer ·  flake

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chunk:   chunks
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Perhaps variant of chuck2.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Prop. a dial. word, a variation of chump or chub, appar, through influence of hunk, hunch.
 

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