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hulk

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Noun

  1. A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
  2. A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
  3. A large structure with a dominating presence.
  4. A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
  5. A big (and possibly clumsy) person: An excessively muscled person.
  6. A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics Universe.
  7. A strongman.

Verb

  1. To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
  2. To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
  3. To move (a large, hulking body).
  4. To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
  5. Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
  6. To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

Proper noun

  1. A fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

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