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Synonyms: Noun
clod, clodhopper, gawk, lout, lubber, lug, lump, Neanderthal, oaf, palooka
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The ship's rusting hulk is still visible on the rocks. the burned out hulk of the factoryRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Guardiola’s players were too quick, too bright, too smart for the lumbering hulks José Mourinho had sent out to try to quell them. — Rory Smith, New York Times, "Paul Pogba and Manchester United Spoil City’s Championship Party," 7 Apr. 2018 Ernest Bevin, the British foreign secretary, was an unlikely partner, a working-class hulk who rose through Labour’s ranks to serve in Churchill’s war cabinet and then became the key figure in the postwar Labour government. — Wm. Roger Louis, WSJ, "‘Grand Improvisation’ Review: Rising Eagle, Wounded Lion," 16 Oct. 2018 Gold, decked out in his signature suspenders, frizzy ginger hair brushing his shoulders, hulks over a tiny laptop, pecking out his next piece. — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, "Remembering Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer-Winning Food Critic and Los Angeles Icon," 22 July 2018 Everyone fighting over who katherine langford is going to be in avengers 4 has me WEAK LMFOAJSJS watch her turn out to be some irrelevant barista running away from danger because the hulk destroyed her cafe. — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, "People Think Katherine Langford Will Play Hawkeye in "Avengers 4"," 29 Oct. 2018 So while MoMA’s exhibition does contextualize this concrete architecture, attaching names, places, and specific stories to the gray hulks, whether the summertime audience will care is another story. — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, "Concrete utopia," 12 July 2018 But cheap gas isn't the only driver of the SUV boom: Today's models bear little resemblance to the hulks of yore. — chicagotribune.com, "American automakers scrap cars, ceding market to foreign makes," 23 Jan. 2018 Texas' Shin-Soo Choo and New York hulk Giancarlo Stanton, last year's NL MVP, both still play the outfield sometimes, which helps. — Mike Fitzpatrick, chicagotribune.com, "MLB All-Star Game predictions: Who will start on July 17?," 6 July 2018 The trip to Oxford’s Winter Institute, which was housed inside a Brutalist hulk of a building on the University of Mississippi campus, marked the culmination of a monthslong unraveling of their grandfather’s story. — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, "A Lynching’s Long Shadow," 25 Apr. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Ghani supervised one Tuesday evening as a crane lifted one of the slabs, known as T-walls, that had long hulked over a road in downtown Baghdad. — Nabih Bulos, The Seattle Times, "Baghdad, once a jewel among Arab capitals, is barely functional," 28 Jan. 2019 Mark Knight of Melbourne’s Herald Sun depicted Williams as an irate, hulking, big-mouthed black woman jumping up and down on a broken racket. — Deepti Hajela, The Seattle Times, "Serena Williams’ treatment resonates among black women," 11 Sep. 2018 Zaryadye, built using the rubble from the hulking Soviet-era Rossiya Hotel that was Europe’s largest in the ’60s but demolished in 2006, answers new needs and aspirations—to be a showcase of the most up-to-date green urbanism. — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, "The Most Ambitious Park in Russia," 25 July 2018 The movement’s hulking raw-concrete structures then swept the globe—from the controversial Boston City Hall to Japan’s Saga Prefectural Gymnasium. — Lauren Ho, Condé Nast Traveler, "Architectural Reboot: The Return of Brutalism," 20 Dec. 2018 Particularly the Hotel Excelsior, a posh, history-rich property that overlooks both the Adriatic Sea and the Old City's hulking stone walls. — Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, "The Best Room At...Hotel Excelsior," 11 Nov. 2018 Critics of Knight's cartoon described it as a clear example of a stereotype facing black women, depicting Williams as an irate, hulking, big-mouthed black woman jumping up and down on a broken racket. — Fox News, "Newspaper reprints controversial cartoon of Serena Williams," 12 Sep. 2018 The hulking monument to modernism is considered to be the first skyscraper in Dubai and marked a turning point in the city’s standing on the world stage. — Alex Bazeley, Curbed, "Dubai’s first skyscraper will be included in new preservation initiative," 14 Aug. 2018 Enter his hulking Wood Wiz machine, which Klassen imported from Australia. — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, "The Man, the Wood, and the River," 1 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hulk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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