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