Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) the body, the torso.

1825		N.-Y. National Advocate 14 Nov. 2/3: There was considerable claret drawn [...] dominos shattered, bowsprit twisted away, and hulks otherwise damaged, till neither party was able to stand on his pins.
1924		H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 66: Maybe you have the makings of a man left in that old hulk yet.

2. (US) a large, muscular man.

[1749		H. Fitzcotton (trans.) Homer’s Iliad 38: As he was squat and bulky / The filles de joye nicknam’d him hulky].
1848		Bradford Obs. 27 Jan. 7: ‘Give it out, you hulk,’ said Kate . [...] ‘Here, then,’ exclaimed the savage with a grin of ferocious mirth, distorting his grim colossal features into a smile.
1908		Hopper & Bechdolt ‘9009’ (1909) 129: He came upon a policeman. The man, a big, burly hulk, was walking slowly, twirling his stick.
1940		E. O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night Act I: You’re a healthy hulk like me.
1959		A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 25: ‘You can take the Benz,’ he said to the middle-aged hulk.
1961		(con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 236: A ponderous, bulletheaded Prussian hulk.
2001		S. King Dreamcatcher 150: This boy is even bigger, a six-foot-five hulk.

3. (UK drugs) an unspecified drug, ? cocaine.

2015

86 ‘Mostman’ 🎵 Tom N Lee [sic] and Tim Hutton but you still moving that Hulk.