chunk

Meanings

Noun

• A part of something that has been separated.
• A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
• A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
• A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
• A segment of a comedian's performance.

Verb

• To break into large pieces or chunks.
• To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
• To throw.

Origin

• Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump -kin (compare hunk from hump, etc.).