What is all right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.] He . . . began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him. Stephen Crane called?
hunky — All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.] He . . . began to shoot; began to get "hunky" with all those people who had been plugging at him. Stephen Crane. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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