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  • adjective Alternative spelling of humongous.

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Examples

  • Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who runs Dubai or at least the parts that are still operating, had wanted to call the humungous apartment erection

    The New Republic - All Feed 2010

  • The heroine's repeated use of the word "humungous" and description of hero's legs as "like tree trunks" was also a tad off-putting.

    What this Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Lawrence Township Fire Marshal Dick Groves says the "humungous" explosion happened Thursday on a ramp from I-69 to I-465 on the city's northeast side.

    The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front 2009

  • On the other hand, let’s see * you* try and go out to solve the world’s economic crisis with that "humungous" sum of money in comparison to the $787 billion "bailout" that could fund NASA for the next 43 years at its current $18 billion rate.

    Obama Speaks of NASA Being Adrift - NASA Watch 2009

  • As far as hitting the critter in the body with a small caliber hypervelocity bullet goes, I have seen ballistics gel tests of such rounds and there is the little entry, big humungous exit.

    Is Your Bullet Big Enough? 2009

  • Sharpay is known for being on stage with props and a humungous show, and this is the first time she's not only the most vulnerable in her life, but she's vulnerable on stage.

    Ashley Tisdale: I Owed It to My Fans to Give Sharpay a Really Good Ending 2011

  • I swear, everybody's related in Hawaii, it's just one humungous gene pool.

    I Was Don Ho's Ho Robert Vaughan 2011

  • It's humungous,'' Matt White, Australia's national road cycling co-ordinator, told the Sydney Morning Herald.

    Cadel Evans blazes ahead to become first Australian Tour de France winner 2011

  • Whatever happens, the outcome will impinge on negotiations between Citigroup and Hands, who have been talking for more than a year about offloading some of the weight of EMI's humungous debts.

    EMI: the £4.2bn deal that turned the best of friends into bitter enemies Zoe Wood 2010

  • As far as hitting the critter in the body with a small caliber hypervelocity bullet goes, I have seen ballistics gel tests of such rounds and there is the little entry, big humungous exit.

    Is Your Bullet Big Enough? 2009

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