hulknoun [ C ]
uk/hʌlk/us/hʌlk/hulk noun [ C ] (SHIP)
the body of an old ship, car, or very large piece of equipment that is broken and no longer used:
Here and there the rusted hulk of an abandoned car dots the landscape.
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Parts of ships & boats
- abaft
- boathook
- boiler room
- capstan
- echo sounder
- engine room
- gangplank
- gunnel
- helm
- jib
- lanyard
- lifebelt
- mast
- oar
- paddle
- porthole
- rib
- rudder
- sail
- tiller
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hulk noun [ C ] (AWKWARD)
a large, heavy, awkward person or thing:
Henry's a real hulk of a man.
The Incredible Hulk is a character in a comic who turns from a scientist into a two-metre tall monster.
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
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Inability and awkwardness