Noun The ship's rusting hulk is still visible on the rocks. the burned out hulk of the factory
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Jennifer Walter navigates life as a single attorney who specializes in superhuman cases, and who just happens to also be a 6-foot-7-inch hulk. Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 Real estate developers have their eyes on the sprawling and decaying hulk at 3535 W. Roosevelt Road. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2022 The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2022 In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022 For years, architect-developer Bruce Redman Becker drove past the former Pirelli Tire Building looming over Interstates 91 and 95 in New Haven, wondering why the concrete hulk designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer was empty. Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2022 The most conspicuous monument to the fighting is the smashed hulk of an Antonov An-225.Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022 No one wanted to take on this crumbling hulk looming on the outskirts of the city. Until Lynn Saunders.New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022 To see this rusting hulk, start at Lunada Bay and walk north to Palos Verdes Point which is just under a half mile away. Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
Verb
In the city of Midgar, Cloud, an ex-military mercenary with one hulking sword, is enlisted by eco-terrorist group Avalanche to take down a Shinra reactor, setting him on a path to reunite with Sephiroth, a figure from his past thought to be dead. Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2020 Giving the lie to the notion that indoor grills just don't match up to their large, hulking outdoor counterparts, the Breville Smart Grill is a powerhouse.Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2020 The idea is that in a war with China, America’s hulking aircraft carriers might be pushed far out to sea by the threat of missiles.The Economist, 31 Mar. 2020 So, instead of having one giant, hulking cabinet containing both, Stoffer designed two elegant, slender columns across the room from each other to house the family's GE Monogram fridge and freezer. Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 18 Mar. 2020 The plan was to stay one night at a pretty country-estate hotel surrounded by seemingly endless fields of tall grass and hulking majestic trees that looked more like hyperrealistic drawings. Candice Rainey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Jan. 2020 At Crunch on West 23rd Street, there were hulking men spotted through the windows. Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020 The upcoming GMC Hummer pickup hulked in one corner of the dome and the Cadillac Lyriq, a futuristic SUV, shown across the aisle. Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2020 Offensive lineman Justin Stevens — a freshman early enrollee from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia — posted a video to Twitter of himself lifting four massive tires with his hulking 6-foot-5, 292-pound frame. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English hulke, from Old English hulc, probably from Medieval Latin holcas, from Greek holkas, from helkein to pull — more at sulcus
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a