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gunk

[guhngk] / gʌŋk /














NOUN
soot
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To deal with any remaining sticky or dried-on gunk, I do a simple two-pass wipe-down.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

Bringing it all to a head: a civil trial began last week in a federal court where Elon Musk was trying to oust Altman, his former partner, and gunk up OpenAI’s going-public ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The 34-year-old has 15m followers on TikTok who watch him remove gunk and debris from swimming pools and then use a jet washer to restore them back to their original beauty.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

She chases a tip down a dark alley leading to a spotless lab where her numbered locker yields tubes of white gunk, syringes of green miracle formula and some easy-to-read instructions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024

He waded out into the gunk and slime of the water.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi


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