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Hunch

noun

An impression that something might be the case. Synonyms: intuition, suspicion.

The act of bending yourself into a humped position.

verb

(past & past part. hunched; pres. part. hunching)

Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward. Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over.

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"Hunch" Quotes from Famous Books

... gravel paths I have a feeling that Dickie's father and the Crag and Sallie's girl-babies are fomenting around in my mind getting ready to pop the cork of an idea soon. The combination feels like some kind of a hunch—I sat still for a long time and let it seethe, while I ...

— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess

... knock down a few with the horse, but that won't hurt 'em to speak of. It wouldn't pain me none to knock that marshal about half ways down the street—not for anything he's done to me, but because I've got a hunch he talked pretty ...

— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx

... myself that Chester wasn't any self-starter. I saw he'd have to be cranked by an outsider if he was going to win a place of his own in the New Dawn. And I kept thinking wily, and the next P.M. when Nettie and I was downtown I got my hunch. You know that music store on Fourth Street across from the Boston Cash Emporium. It's kept by C. Wilbur Todd, and out in front in a glass case he had a mechanical banjo that was playing 'The Rosary' with variations when ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... said Bell feverishly, "that plug in to take the place of the longer-wave ones. I'm going to try them. It's a hunch, and it's crazy, but...." ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... the wind! Come, hunch with me over the fire, Dream of the dreams that leered and grinned, Ere the blood of the Year got chilled and thinned, And the death came ...

— Hawthorn and Lavender - with Other Verses • William Ernest Henley

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