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In some senses, hunky is marked as informal, slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
hunky
/ˈhʌŋ.ki/
adj 4noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, big, long
VERB + HUNKY
began, get, let
HUNKY + NOUN
john, man
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
1
Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
2
Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
3
All right; in good condition.
4
even; square; on equal footing with.
[…] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.
noun
1
A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."
He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.
noun
1
Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”).
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[…] he dropped like a brick into the firing line and began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him.
Wiktionary02
"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."
Wiktionary03
He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.
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The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]
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Brian is a regular at the cafe. He is a hunky man with long grey-streaked hair.
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