chunknoun [ C ]
uk/tʃʌŋk/us/tʃʌŋk/a roughly cut piece:
a chunk of cheese/meat
pineapple/tuna chunks
informal a part of something, especially a large part:
a chunk of text
a substantial chunk of our profits
Three hours is quite a chunk out of my working day.
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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
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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