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Definition of "hunch" []

  • An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose. (noun)
  • A hump. (noun)
  • A lump or chunk: "She . . . cut herself another hunch of bread” ( Virginia Woolf). (noun)
  • A push or shove. (noun)
  • To bend or draw up into a hump: I hunched my shoulders against the wind. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hunch" in a sentence
  • "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 ..."
  • "It's what we call a hunch -- coincidence or anything like that."
  • "My "hunch" is that you resign you lying cheating two-faced scum!"