Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unwieldy or bulky; massive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unwieldy; heavy and clumsy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Bulky; unwiedly; of great size and bulk; ponderous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Large andbulky . - adjective
Tall and heavily built. - adjective
Unwieldy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of great size and bulk
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Examples
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Call your hulking minion, and order him to stow salt in my cell.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Call your hulking minion, and order him to stow salt in my cell.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Tom protests that he hates “that word hulking,” but Daisy has nailed it.
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Tom protests that he hates “that word hulking,” but Daisy has nailed it.
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But he calls the hulking device a "terrific machine" and beats on the casing to show that it is "military hardened." "
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But he calls the hulking device a "terrific machine" and beats on the casing to show that it is "military hardened." "
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But he calls the hulking device a "terrific machine" and beats on the casing to show that it is "military hardened." "
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"There's that good-looking man Cousin Katherine classifies as a hulking animal," said Sally.
Lady Betty Across the Water Orson Lowell 1889
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A third suspect, whom cops described as a hulking, 6-foot-5, 330-pound strong-arm man, also was arrested.
NY Daily News 2009
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(CNN) -- Wrestler Edward Fatu, better known as the hulking, tattooed WWE superstar "Umaga," died Friday of a heart attack in a Houston, Texas, hospital, a family friend said.
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