hunch
IPA: hˈʌntʃ
noun
- A hump; a protuberance.
- A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
- A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
- A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
- A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
verb
- (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
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Examples of "hunch" in Sentences
- My hunch is that captive is the most likely.
- I have a hunch that she is having an affair.
- My hunch is that gravity is the fundamental mechanism.
- His hunch was correct, and the picture is inside the pipe.
- Recognize that people tend to hunch in front of the keyboard.
- My hunch is that the NFL team will take the Series in October.
- It's what we call a hunch -- coincidence or anything like that.
- My "hunch" is that you resign you lying cheating two-faced scum!
- I'm looking for something in the literature to confirm that hunch.
- My hunch is encroaching bureaucracy and the invention of the memo.
- My hunch is that the topic will be addressed one way or the other.
- Due to the low ceilings, the older children walk with a permanent hunch.
- Good Luck on the Elk hunt; keep the boy at home just in case your hunch is correct!
- Our hunch is that we'll be working mostly on building communities, rather than making tools.
- Anyways, I wonder if my hunch is correct, and that sexuality is the signifier of Young Adult Fiction these days.
- The Feds might have got him on this shuffle thing, but my hunch is there's more to look into w/r/t iPod Mechanic ...
- My hunch is that if you tell guys like Crosby or Malkin that they won't be able to climb this mountain twice, they are going to prove you wrong.
- My hunch is that the functional meaning of that clause will shrink to nothingness, probably the mechanical distribution of the sacremnets and nothing else.
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