verb, noun
verb [+adv./prep.] to bend the top part of your body forward and raise your shoulders and back:
[V] She leaned forward, hunching over the desk. * [VN] He hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets.
hunched adjective:
a hunched figure * He sat hunched over his breakfast.
noun a feeling that sth is true even though you do not have any evidence to prove it:
It seemed that the doctor's hunch had been right. * My hunch is that the burglars are still in the area. * I had a hunch (that) you'd be back. * to follow / back your hunches
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hunch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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