Usually means: Attractive and strong, typically male.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word hunky:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hunky, hunky: Merriam-Webster
  2. hunky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunky, hunky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hunky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hunky, hunky: Wordnik
  6. hunky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hunky: Wiktionary
  8. hunky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hunky: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hunky, hunky: Dictionary.com
  11. hunky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Hunky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hunky: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hunky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. hunky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunky: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunky, hunky, hunky, hunky, hunky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hunky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See hunkier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
adjective:  Shaped like a hunk, or piece; chunky.
adjective:  (US, slang) All right; in good condition.
adjective:  (US, slang) even; square; on equal footing with
noun:  (US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of hunky (“Hungarian, eastern European”) [(US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)]

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