chunk
Plural: chunks
Noun
- a compact mass
- a substantial amount
- "we won a chunk of money"
- A part of something that has been separated.
- A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
- A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- A segment of a comedian's performance.
- Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).
Verb
Verb Forms: chunked, chunking, chunks
- To make a dull, heavy sound; to throw or drop heavily.
- put together indiscriminately
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- To break into large pieces or chunks.
- To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- To throw.
- Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
Examples
- a chunk of granite
- examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"
- He decided to CHUNK his high-scoring ’Q’ onto the double-letter square.
- He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.
- The statue broke into chunks.
Origin / Etymology
Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).
Synonyms
ball, clod, clump, collocate, glob, lump, bit, bung, cast, chip, chuck, chunk, clip, cook, crumb, crumbling, cutting, dash, dump, feck, flake, fleak, fling, fragment, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hunk, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, mammock, ort, peck, peg, pick, piece, piecemeal, pitch, portion, precipitate, project, quoit, scrap, scraplet, shy, skew, slice, slight, sling, snead, snippet, steck, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
Scrabble Score: 14
chunk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordchunk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chunk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary