chunk n : a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump]

1 put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: lump]

2 group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, lump]

English

Etymology

Variant of chuck.

Pronunciation

• /ʧʌŋk/, /tSVNk/
• Rhymes with: -ʌŋk

Noun

1. A part of something that has been separated, often large pieces.

   The statue broke into chunks.

2. A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.

   A chunk of granite

Translations

• Spanish: trozo , pedazo

Verb

1. To break into large pieces or chunks.
2. esp. is southern U.S., to throw

See also

• chuck
• hunk

Chunk or chunky may refer to:

• Chunk (information)
• Packed pixel, or "chunky", a method of frame buffer organization in computer graphics
• Chunk, a character published by DC Comics
• Chunky, Mississippi, a town in the United States of America
• Chunky River, a river in Mississippi in the United States of America
• Nestlé Chunky, a candy bar
• Chunky Kong, a character in the video game Donkey Kong 64
• "Chunk", the nickname of Lawrence Cohen, a character in the film The Goonies
• C.h.u.n.k. 666, a tall bike club in the United States of America
• Chunky: Refering to a chubby person.

See also

• Chunking, for meanings where the word Chunk is used as a verb

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