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hulky

[huhl-kee] / ˈhʌl ki /


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S.M. wrote, referring to the hulky actor and professional wrestler.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

The Flyers, Raymond says, are the personification of hockey itself: “plodding and big and hulky and weird.”

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

Instead, he walked on to the track team as an incongruous, hulky sprinter.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2019

He found Nenad Zimonjić, a hulky Serb four years his junior who had been having a good deal of success in mixed doubles.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 30, 2016

It’s as if she’s stepped down off the wall, the walls: the same round raw potato face, the hulky big-boned frame, the glittering spectacles and hairpin crown.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood