lunk

British

/ lʌŋk /

noun

an awkward, heavy, or stupid person

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A lunk of a guy goes out to the barn behind his house every night and tosses a metal ball as far as he can.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024

The “Dude” skin is a super beef-ified version of Ryan Reynolds’ character Guy and looks like the kind of person who routinely sets off the lunk alarm at Planet Fitness.

From The Verge • Aug. 12, 2021

Sylvester Stallone voices King Shark, who is described as "counter-intuitively lovable, if lethal, lunk".

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2021

Lift with some danged pulley system involving fulcrums and levers and inclined planes, or, better yet, just hire some dumb lunk.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

O, I ask you to think As you never have thunk, And our fortunes and lives let us link, as no lives could be lunk.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

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