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"Southern US English"
],
"glosses": [
"To throw."
],
"links": [
[
"throw",
"throw"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw."
],
"tags": [
"Southern-US",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Video games"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent."
],
"links": [
[
"video game",
"video game"
],
[
"Deal",
"deal"
],
[
"substantial",
"substantial"
],
[
"damage",
"damage"
],
[
"opponent",
"opponent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"video-games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃʌŋk/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-chunk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-us-chunk.ogg/En-us-chunk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-us-chunk.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌŋk"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"chunk"
],
"word": "chunk"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʌŋk",
"Rhymes:English/ʌŋk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "chunks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "chunk (plural chunks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "type of spiral shell",
"word": "chank"
}
],
"categories": [
"English archaic forms"
],
"glosses": [
"Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”)."
],
"links": [
[
"chank",
"chank#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃʌŋk/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-chunk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-us-chunk.ogg/En-us-chunk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-us-chunk.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌŋk"
}
],
"word": "chunk"
}
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