hunch

The definition of a hunch is a feeling or a premonition about something, or an arched back while sitting or standing.

(noun)

An example of a hunch is a feeling about who stole the books.
An example of a hunch is the shape of the back of someone who does not sit up straight while sitting.

To hunch is defined as to bend over or crouch down.

(verb)

An example of to hunch is to crouch down while sitting at the dinner table.

See hunch in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to draw (one's body, etc.) up so as to form a hump; arch into a hump

Origin: < ?

intransitive verb

noun

a hump
a chunk; lump; hunk
☆ a guess or feeling not based on known facts; premonition or suspicion: from the superstition that it brings good luck to touch a hunchback

See hunch in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An intuitive feeling or a premonition: had a hunch that he would lose.
A hump.
A lump or chunk: “She . . . cut herself another hunch of bread” (Virginia Woolf).
A push or shove.

verb hunched, hunch·ing, hunch·es

verb, transitive