Clamping a bear hug on the appliance, the 6-ft. 3-in, 286-lb. Russian hoisted it off the floor. “It was a huge fridge,” he recalls, “and I carried it to my apartment up eight flights of stairs.” … This Bunyanesque figure is a husband and the father of three children, including a daughter who was born this year. (John Greenwald, The Summer Olympics/The Ones To Beat: Alexander Kareli, Time, 09/11/2000, p. 80.)
This word can also be synonymous with huge, large, gigantic, etc.
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