Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy, unwieldy ship.
- noun The hull of an old, unseaworthy, or wrecked ship.
- noun An old or unseaworthy ship used as a prison or warehouse.
- noun One, such as a person or object, that is bulky, clumsy, or unwieldy.
- noun A wrecked or abandoned shell of a usually large object, such as a building or vehicle.
- intransitive verb To appear as a massive or towering form; loom.
- intransitive verb To move clumsily.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hut.
- noun A pigsty or a cattle-pen.
- To take out the entrails of: as, to
hulk a hare. - In mining, to take down or remove, as the softer part of a lode, before removing the harder part. See
gouge , n., 5. - noun A ship, particularly a heavy ship.
- noun Anything bulky or unwieldy; a large unwieldy person.
- noun The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; particularly, the body of an old ship or vessel which is laid up as unfit for sea-service, or a dismasted wreck.
- noun A hull or husk.
- noun The holly.
- noun In mining: The removal of the gouge or soft part from the side of the lode before breaking any part of the hard metalliferous portion of it down.
- noun The excavation made by this operation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To take out the entrails of; to disembowel.
- noun The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
- noun A heavy ship of clumsy build.
- noun Anything bulky or unwieldly.
- noun an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.
- noun [Eng.] old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove the
entrails of; todisembowel . - noun a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
- noun archaic any large ship that is
difficult tomaneuver - noun A big, (and possibly
clumsy ) person - noun bodybuilding : An
excessively muscled person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned
- verb appear very large or occupy a commanding position
- noun a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Where the hulk is the only person alive on earth, a hundred years after nuclear fallout, with cockroaches the only things on the planet.
Mark Millar Pitches His 8-Hour Epic Trilogy of Superman Films | /Film 2008
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Warner, the former NFL quarterback and a six-foot-plus hulk, is the newbie on this turf.
Stars That Truly Dance Sarah Kaufman 2010
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October 27, 2007 at 1: 43 am why would you want the sentry to lose. .the hulk is kinda the bad guy and almost every superhero is a copy of superman to some degree and at least sentry has EMO problems to make him very interesting hulk should lose and stop killing every body it kinda makes him evil. .hel ost his wife and unborn child so has lot of people live with it
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By the way, are those Levi's jeans the hulk is wearing?
Confirmed: Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk Crossover Scene! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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NEED HIM! without him, 2 wont be as good as one …. sean on Jun 10, 2008 not only did he make ironman a success but i bet you anything that hulk is gonna be a success too and it will all be because of ironman and how great it was!
Jon Favreau Might Not Direct Iron Man 2 - It Can't Be?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The hulk is one of my favorite characters, this is pitiful.
The Hulk's CGI Finally Gets Upgraded! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I really hope the incredible hulk is as great as ironman but with more action.
Sam Raimi Willing to Return for Spider-Man 4 and Beyond « FirstShowing.net 2008
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It looks like the hulk is watching some action quite a distance in front of him (where the tanks and choppers are focused) and Norton is just walking away from a bad poster.
The Incredible Hulk Poster Revealed! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Best way to compare iron man and hulk is to pit them against each other.
Sound Off: The Incredible Hulk - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Its hulk is covered with 4 ins. of British oak and lined with 4 ins. of greenhart, and the space between them is packed with rock salt.
hernesheir commented on the word hulk
A swinesty, hogsty; a swinecote, pig-cote.
February 18, 2013