See honkin' on Wiktionary
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"Emphatically or impressively big; really big."
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"ref": "1997 March 5, Will Hermes, “The Importance of Being Earnest: U2 goes forward and backward with Pop”, in Minneapolis City Pages:",
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"Used as an intensifier."
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"(US, slang) Used as an intensifier."
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