TO BE (or GET) HUNK or ALL HUNK, verb. phr. (American).—1. To hit a mark; to achieve an object; to be safe. Also (2) to scheme. [From Dutch honk = goal or home.]
1847. J. M. FIELD, The Drama in Pokerville, p. 50. I allow you’re just HUNK, this time.
1893. Detroit Free Press, June 23, ‘He Threatens to go back,’ p. 3. I propose to have some of it, or I’ll GET HUNK.
