Citations:hulk

be a hulk, a large presence

 * 1986, The American Voice:
 * It hulked up like a boulder in the middle of the room. Not the sort of thing you&#39;d like to meet on a dark night or in a nightmare. Suppose you turned down an alley and there was an electron microscope staring you in the face.
 * 2007, Mike Fredson, Hood Canal, Arcadia Publishing (ISBN 9781439618349)
 * However, in 1893, the railroads failed and left McReavy&#39;s Union City bankrupt. Hoodsport almost receded into the heavy forested mountains that hulked up behind the tiny town. But already a new dream—this time of recreation—had sprouted ...
 * 2010, Stephen King, The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781439182789), page 351:
 * Coffey, meanwhile, hulked in the corridor with his bald skull almost brushing one of the caged overhead lights. Standing there with his hands in front of him and his shoulders sloped forward to either side of his barrel chest, he made me think
 * 2012, Nevada Barr, The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel, Minotaur Books (ISBN 9781429951135):
 * Anna retreated behind the kitchen counter, wanting a barrier between herself and the men at least until her eyes adjusted and the giant killer butterflies in her stomach settled. Steve, Jim, and Regis hulked in the middle of the small living space

move while being a hulk, or in a hulking manner

 * 1934, Gösta Larsson, Our Daily Bread: A Novel:
 * After a while he hulked up to where Erland sat, putting his hairy fist on the table and watching the boy work. Apparently he was satisfied. “Ja, ja!” he grumbled. He noisily took his huge bulk away and retired into the small room, the floor planks ...
 * 1968, Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove - Warren G. Harding in His Times (ISBN 9780070543386):
 * This hearty, willing man had hulked his 354 pounds about the world, faithfully and deftly running presidential errands in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, Rome, Russia, and Japan and China.
 * 1974, Charles Gaines, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, Simon & Schuster:
 * The crowd watched noncommittally as he hulked up to the sign-in table to give his name, and then as he walked over to the leopard-skin posing dais and began stomping on it to test it for his weight. &quot;No class,&quot; said a guy sitting next to me, ...
 * 1994, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Science and Other Poems, LSU Press (ISBN 9780807119150), page 16:
 * ANO NUEVO A man with four children crowding like saplings around him whistles to wake up the elephant seal who has hulked his impossible body onto the beach.
 * 2008, Craig Conte, Millennial Reign, iUniverse (ISBN 9780595524679), page 301:
 * Instead he hulked his way towards Kruger again as the crowd ooohd and aaahd at the prowess. The two men were about equal in height, but Matusak outweighed Kruger by about fifty pounds.
 * 2017, N.D.Rabin, Hidden Magic: Fear of the Smallest Wizard, AuthorHouse (ISBN 9781524678371)
 * Hadrian hulked his mass over the spot where the children had disappeared. &#39;You are still here, aren&#39;t you? I can feel your presence.&#39; He walked forwards and his giant strides came down on the children. They scrambled out the way, ...

(something to do with hunching over in sadness?)

 * 2003, J. D. Robb, Portrait in Death, Penguin (ISBN 9781101191217):
 * He didn&#39;t speak on the way to the morgue, but hulked in the back of the car with his arms folded over his chest and dark sunshades wrapped around the top half of his face. But she felt him there—the blasts of cold that was his fear, ...
 * 2010, The New Yorker, page 25:
 * At the opening night of &quot;County of Kings&quot; — a one-man show by Lemon Andersen, who tells of losing his youth to crime and his mother to AIDS — Eustis sat hulked over in a tuxedo, his eyes moist and his goatee aquiver. He mists over at the ...

(something to do with hulking out in anger?)

 * 2003, Karen Michalson, Hecate's Glory, Macmillan (ISBN 9780312890605), page 51:
 * At that moment Cristo returned, all hulked over in a barely suppressed rage. “As long as I'm the favorite, I don't need to be a stupid priest,” he announced for Cristo's edification.

hulk up (like The Hulk)

 * 2012, Terry Funk, Scott E. Williams, Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781613213087)
 * and he hulked up! He took another hit, and he hulked up more! He took a third hit, and he was, by God, invincible. He beat those guys all over the place, and the fans were just going out of their minds.
 * 2015, Vanessa Lapointe, Discipline Without Damage: How to Get Your Kids to Behave Without Messing Them Up, Greystone Books (ISBN 9781928055112), page 85:
 * And some children will show excessive persistence when they are in a hulked-up state. Your child might fall, slightly scrape her knee, but then scream and cry and erupt hysterically. Even when you respond with appropriate care and attention, ...


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 * 2016, Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus, Penguin (ISBN 9781594634246), page 267:
 * He heaved himself against the hatch, hulked his puny mass against it, jamming his legs against the duct best he could without falling, urged his body against this barrier, which he somehow knew was his last, heaved himself again up and out ...