Usually means: Large, abandoned, or wrecked ship.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hulk: Merriam-Webster
  2. hulk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hulk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hulk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hulk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hulk, hulk: Wordnik
  7. hulk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hulk: Wiktionary
  9. hulk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hulk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hulk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hulk, hulk: Dictionary.com
  13. hulk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hulk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HULK, Hulk (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Hulk (TV series), Hulk (Ultimate Marvel character), Hulk (character), Hulk (comic book), Hulk (comics), Hulk (disambiguation), Hulk (film), Hulk (footballer), Hulk (medieval ship type), Hulk (ship), Hulk (ship type), Hulk (video game), Hulk, The Hulk (comic book), The Hulk (film), The Hulk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hulk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hulk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hulk: Rhymezone
  19. Hulk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hulk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hulk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hulk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. hulk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hulk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Hulk: Wiktionary
  26. hulk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hulk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hulk (comics), Hulk (disambiguation), hulk, the Hulk: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HULK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hulk, hulk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Hulk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See hulked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical)
noun:  (archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
noun:  (by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
noun:  (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
noun:  (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
noun:  (bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
verb:  (transitive, nautical)
verb:  To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
verb:  To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
verb:  (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
verb:  (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete except British, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
noun:  A fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.
noun:  A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics Universe.
noun:  (by extension) A strongman.

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