Usually means: Folk hero with giant stature.
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  1. Bunyan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bunyan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bunyan: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Bunyan: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bunyan: Wordnik
  6. Bunyan: Wiktionary
  7. Bunyan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Bunyan: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bunyan: Dictionary.com
  10. Bunyan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bunyan: Rhymezone
  12. bunyan: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bunyan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Bunyan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bunyan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bunyan)

▸ noun:  An English surname; a nickname for someone with a hump or lump.
▸ noun:  John Bunyan, English preacher and writer.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
▸ noun:  A locality in the Snowy Monaro Region of New South Wales, Australia; the name is from an Aboriginal language.

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old, poor, honest, depraved, legendary, young, good, great, 845-6, own, famous

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↻From "Laurel Canyon" by Chief Keef:

You taking shots Steph Curry, Paul Bunyan
But them skills aint gon help you when its riot
I'm smoking weed, rollin weed I'm blunted (Dope)
I'm in Cali ridin through Laurel Canyan
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Paul Bunyan, Bunney, bunton, Buncombe, Bunn, Bunyard, Bunke, bunting, Bunsen, Bunten, more...

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