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Hunch   /həntʃ/   Listen
noun
Hunch  n.  
1.
A hump; a protuberance.
2.
A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
3.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
4.
A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen; said to be from the gambler's superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback. (Colloq. or Slang) "Get a hunch, bet a bunch."
Synonyms: presentiment, premonition.


verb
Hunch  v. t.  (past & past part. hunched; pres. part. hunching)  
1.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
2.
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.





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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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