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Hunky means (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty..
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/ˈhʌŋ.ki/ · adjective
(informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty..
[…] 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.
He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."
"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."
He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.
The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]
On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]
Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.
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Hunky means (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty..
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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.
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