- a short, thick piece, as of meat or wood
- a considerable portion
- a stocky animal, esp. a horse
Origin of chunk
from uncertain or unknown; perhaps chuck- to form into a chunk or chunks
- to assmble into a group or groups
Big chunks of chocolate in a cookie.
The definition of a chunk is a thick or large piece of something.
An example of a chunk is a large piece of chocolate in a cookie.
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chunk
noun
- A thick mass or piece: a chunk of ice.
- Informal A substantial amount: won quite a chunk of money.
- A strong stocky horse.
verb
chunked, chunk·ing, chunksverb
transitiveTo form into chunks.
verb
intransitiveTo make a dull clacking sound: listened to the rundown copier chunk along.
Origin of chunk
Perhaps variant of chuck 2THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural chunks)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)
Origin
Variant of chuck.
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Sentence Examples
- I imagine that took a chunk out of his savings.
- Brady held up the chunk of steel.
- Mauch Chunk cluding the Bur- 4.
- The Mauch Chunk series (shale and sandstone) is now believed to be largely of terrestrial origin.
- Mauch Chunk is served by the Central of New Jersey railway and, at East Mauch Chunk, across the river, connected by electric railway, by the Lehigh Valley railway.
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