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lunk
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Noun
lunk (plural lunks)
- (derogatory, informal, originally US) A fool; an idiot; a lunkhead.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
- 2025 August 26, Helen Lewis, “The Defiant Conventionality of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce”, in The Atlantic:
- Nonetheless, the joyful lunk is clearly a character whom [Travis] Kelce is happy to play on television and podcasts.
- 2025 October 9, Parul Sehgal, “Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 October 2025:
- “Shadow Ticket” opens in Prohibition-era Milwaukee. Our hero: Hicks McTaggart — former union buster turned muscle for hire, sensitive lunk, good dancer.
- 2025 October 17, Marina Hyde, “Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which even his monarch brother reportedly doesn’t know how he pays for), joshing away at family funerals, and just sort of … riding it out, each time another of his lies about this story is exposed.
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Further reading
- “lunk n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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Swedish
Noun
lunk c
- (fairly relaxed) walking
- (figuratively) the routine of daily life, rut
- falla in i lunken ― fall back into the rut
Declension
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