Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk from the Marvel Comics universe. · A strongman.
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.
The name of a character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comics universe, it has since entered the everyday English lexicon. The name itself is most likely derived from the word hulk (“large person or thing”), which predates the character. See the Wikipedia link at the bottom.
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