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chunk
/tʃʌŋk/
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What does chunk mean?
noun
- A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
- A large or substantial portion of something.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
More meanings (9)
noun
- A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- A segment of a comedian's performance.
- (archaic) Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).
verb
- To break into large pieces or chunks.
- To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- (slang) To throw.
- To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
- To deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
- To remove a chunk from.
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IPA pronunciation
/tʃʌŋk/
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It is simply a chunk of tenacious dough, made of flour and water only, and soaked for a few minutes in warm grease.
They saw a fire smouldering upon a great raft a hundred yards above, and they went stealthily thither and helped themselves to a chunk.
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“She looked so curi’s, a leapin’ and springin’—ice a crackin’—and only to hear her,—plump! ker chunk! ker splash! Spring! Lord! how she goes it!”
When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk, from the man’s hand.
"As the poet Shakespeare has so beautifully said," and then I took a chunk of Shakespeare and nailed it on page five of my sermon.