hulk
IPA: hˈʌɫk
noun
- (nautical)
- (archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
- (by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
- (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
- (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
- (bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
- A fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.
- A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics Universe.
- (by extension) A strongman.
verb
- (transitive, nautical)
- To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
- To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
- (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
- (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
- (intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
- (transitive, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
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