Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tall, brawny man, especially a sexually attractive one.
- noun A stupid man; a lunkheaded man.
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- noun A
fool ; anidiot ; alunkhead .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Or the one where another "lunk"-that's what Planet Fitness calls these sorts of people- struggles to tie his shoes.
Slate Magazine Luke O'Neil 2011
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Then the big lunk from the adjoining territory is invited over for several days of intense passion, at least in the quantitative sense.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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One is her lunk of a boyfriend, another is a drunken and washed-up doctor.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921 Michael Giltz 2011
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One is her lunk of a boyfriend, another is a drunken and washed-up doctor.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921 Michael Giltz 2011
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Then the big lunk from the adjoining territory is invited over for several days of intense passion, at least in the quantitative sense.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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To be fair, it's hard to put a lot of life into characters who are mere types — the conniving, career-driven press agent (Katie Cassidy); the lunk-headed, good-guy filmmaker (Michael Rady); the bad-boy bitter rich kid (Shaun Sipos) — and not particularly interesting types, at that.
Make sure you steer clear of this 'Melrose Place' makeover 2009
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It was about at the point where Jack would shrug his shoulders as if to say there was no point in arguing with a lunk like Roger, which always made Roger mad.
Jack Never Wants to Dance Con Chapman 2011
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Then the big lunk from the adjoining territory is invited over for several days of intense passion, at least in the quantitative sense.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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Pitt, meanwhile, comes across as a bit of a knackered lunk, too vanilla for his struggles to grip in the same way as, say, those of Michael Sheen's Brian Clough in The Damned United – a film with a similar real-life sporting triumph template.
Moneyball – review 2011
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Then the big lunk from the adjoining territory is invited over for several days of intense passion, at least in the quantitative sense.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love? Ph.D. Dan Wharton 2011
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