Definition of hulk
1a : a heavy clumsy shipb (1) : the body of an old ship unfit for service (2) : a ship used as a prison —usually used in plural every prisoner sent to the hulks — Kenneth Robertsc : an abandoned wreck or shell (as of a building or automobile)
2 : one that is bulky or unwieldy
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Examples of hulk in a Sentence
The ship's rusting hulk is still visible on the rocks.
the burned out hulk of the factory
Recent Examples of hulk from the Web
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Her husband arrived at the charred hulk of the building the next day.
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At least 30 people were killed in Wednesday's inferno, which left Grenfell Tower a charred hulk.
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LONDON — Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police announced Saturday, raising the death toll in the horrific inferno that turned the public housing block into a charred hulk.
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London (AP) -- London police on Saturday raised to 58 the number of deaths either confirmed or presumed following the horrific inferno that turned the city's Grenfell Tower public housing block into a charred hulk.
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Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police announced Saturday, raising the death toll in the horrific inferno that turned the public housing block into a charred hulk.
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The prime minister set aside her efforts to form a new government Thursday to visit the scene of the disaster, gazing up at the charred hulk of Grenfell Tower as she was briefed by fire officials.
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Crivelli is a big hulk of a guy with arms like rolled phone books, and a too-tight baseball hat on his melon.
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This 312-foot hulk of gray steel has been berthed along the river’s shoreline since the early 1970s, when the Navy offered it to a group of local veterans.
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Origin and Etymology of hulk
Middle English hulke, from Old English hulc, probably from Medieval Latin holcas, from Greek holkas, from helkein to pull — more at sulcus
hulk
Definition of hulk
intransitive verb
1 dialectal, England : to move ponderously
2 : to appear impressively large or massive : loom factories hulked along the river
Recent Examples of hulk from the Web
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The hulking open parade car was cloaked in secrecy by a fanatical German, Heinrich Heinzburg, whose family had gained possession of the car.
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Like, say, Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris or La Mamounia in Marrakech, whose hulking carved mahogany altars of good spirit, worn from nearly a century’s worth of elbows, inspire us to sit up a little straighter.
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One day after the race at Vanderbilt, Gabe and Justin run an easy seven miles from their apartment in downtown Minneapolis, just west of the Mississippi River and in the shadow of the Vikings’ hulking new U.S. Bank Stadium.
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These days, even a base 911 Carrera will embarrass the sporty MC during stoplight drags, as will a hulking Mercedes-AMG S63 cabriolet.
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For years, Nike Inc. was one of the biggest holdouts against Amazon.com Inc., refusing to provide its sneakers and athletic clothing for sale on the hulking e-commerce site.
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The officers’ defamation claim mirrors what police did to Michael Brown—creating the narrative of the hulking convenience store robber minutes after Officer Darren Wilson felled him in Ferguson, Mo.
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Other eats Shredded beef, pork and chicken along with lettuce, tomato and pickled onions threatened to fall out of the hulking Bad As’s sandwich ($10).
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Other eats Shredded beef, pork and chicken along with lettuce, tomato and pickled onions threatened to fall out of the hulking Bad As’s sandwich ($10).
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First Known Use of hulk
circa 1825
HULK Defined for English Language Learners
hulk
playDefinition of hulk for English Language Learners
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: the main part of something (such as a ship, car, or building) that has been ruined and is no longer used
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: a large person
HULK Defined for Kids
hulk
playDefinition of hulk for Students
1 : a person or thing that is bulky or clumsy
2 : an abandoned wreck or shell of something (as a ship)
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