Meaning of Hulk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
   archaic
2. A fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.
3. A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics Universe.
4. A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
   broadly
5. A strongman.
   broadly
6. A large structure with a dominating presence.
   figuratively
7. A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
   figuratively
8. An excessively muscled person.
   figuratively

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Examples

“Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.”

“Their ſhips thus ſet on ſhore (to fruſtrate their deſire) / Thoſe Daniſh Hulkes became the food of Engliſh fire.”

“They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.”

“A sister ship, originally the Patriotic, and later renamed Lady Leinster and finally the Lady Connaught, was badly damaged by a mine between Liverpool and Belfast; the British & Irish Steam Packet Company next brought [sic] the hulk back from the Belfast Steamship Company and converted her into a livestock carrier.”

“The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet.”

“Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.”

“Fry: How can you say Lars is more mature than me? Leela: Well, for one thing, his checkbook doesn't have the Hulk on it.”

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