honking
adj.— «“This is what did it for me,” she says, and pulls out a honking big back massager. Aficionados call it The Cadillac.» —“All that’s fit to print” by Mike Strobel Toronto Sun (Can.) Oct. 7, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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