- a thick, solid piece that has been cut or broken off something
- a chunk of cheese/masonry
Extra Examples- He cut the food up into bite-size chunks.
- I bought the cheese in one big chunk.
- a huge chunk of meat/rock
- a tin of pineapple chunks
- Chunks of masonry lay in the grass around the ruined building.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- cut something (up) into chunks
- in a/the chunk
- chunk of
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- (informal) a fairly large amount of something
- I've already written a fair chunk of the article.
- This one project has taken a substantial chunk of our budget.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- cut something (up) into chunks
- in a/the chunk
- chunk of
- (linguistics) a phrase or group of words that can be learnt as a unit by somebody who is learning a language. Examples of chunks are ‘Can I have the bill, please?’ and ‘Pleased to meet you’.
- The listening texts consist of short, bite-sized chunks which are accessible to beginners.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: apparently an alteration of the noun chuck senses (1) and (3).
Idioms
See chunk in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryblow chunks
- (North American English, slang) to vomit
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