chunk

Meanings

Plural: chunks

Noun

• a compact mass
• a substantial amount
  • "we won a chunk of money"
• A part of something that has been separated.
• A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
• A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
• A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
• A segment of a comedian's performance.
• Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).

Verb

• put together indiscriminately
• group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
• To break into large pieces or chunks.
• To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
• To throw.
• Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

Synonyms

ball, bit, bung, cast, chip, chuck, chunk, clip, clod, clump, collocate, cook, crumb, crumbling, cutting, dash, dump, feck, flake, fleak, fling, fragment, glob, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hunk, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, lump, mammock, ort, peck, peg, pick, piece, piecemeal, pitch, portion, precipitate, project, quoit, scrap, scraplet, shy, skew, slice, slight, sling, snead, snippet, steck, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing