I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hunch your shoulders (= raise your shoulders and bend them forwards slightly )
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He hunched his shoulders against the rain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"How did you know the answer?" "I just had a hunch about it."
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I have a hunch that Jodie may be planning a surprise party.
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It's just a hunch , but it's possible the murderer may have been a woman.
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My hunch that he was lying turned out to be correct.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is always nice to have your hunches backed up.
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His hunch had been right after all.
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I bought a kayak on a hunch .
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I didn't come up with a theory immediately, though I had hunches which were difficult to put into words.
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In 1964 he had been prepared to back his hunches.
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My hunch , though, is that it will.
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The doctors investigated their hunch by having 142 randomly selected patients fill out a questionnaire after they re-covered from their anesthesia.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Then the driver hunched down with a magazine, the door buzzed open and Maxim went in.
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Twist some dials, and the machine trembles, two robot arms pick up soldering irons and hunch down on him.
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Billy Tolboys pulled up the collar of his ancient leather overcoat and hunched down even deeper into the motorcycle sidecar.
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He stood up sleek and tall, hunched down , and launched himself for a closer look-see.
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But Silk was already inside, hunched down low, Uzi searching for targets.
forward
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Emily hunched forward over her handlebars, tense and determined.
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Pat took off her jacket and hunched forward .
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Hammond was looking down, his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file.
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They left off playing, let go hands and hunched forward as they left the alley and ent red the street.
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A loping gait, he thought, with something tired in the way she hunched forward .
over
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Goggled officials hunched over consoles around tiers of cantilevered wrought-iron galleries, listening to data, whispering orders.
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Some extend their billed baseball caps or hunch over and have the players sign their names on the back of their shirts.
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He was hunched over the car.
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The way they walk around hunched over .
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Then as if the whole world had hunched over to block out the sun, the sky becomes as black as coal.
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Although 70 years old and permanently hunched over from osteoporosis, she was still a compact bundle of energy.
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He could picture him hunched over his desk, busily writing ... for ever writing.
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Roy hunches over and stares at the floor.
up
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I sit there for quite a bit, hunched up on the pavement.
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My shoulders hunched up , my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
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The figure was hunched up on the seat, its head on the table, apparently almost sleeping.
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On the way down I see a red squirrel sitting hunched up and immobile, on a maple tree.
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The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing, dozing lightly.
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Its body is hunched up in a strange way, with its wings drooped, its feathers ruffled and its head lowered.
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He stared down at the body hunched up in the bath.
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He sat with his huge shoulders hunched up .
■ NOUN
shoulder
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She could feel him hesitating, shoulders hunching with the sense of something wrong.
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His chin hung farther down on his chest as his shoulders hunched closer together.
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Fenn froze, shoulders hunched , until the reverberations died away.
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Her shoulders are hunched , her head down as she lopes across the court.
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She looked at me slouching into my chair, shoulders hunched into my body.
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Alan was concentrating too, his shoulders hunched , his head moving slightly as he read.
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My shoulders hunched up, my hands dug down into my pockets, each gesture made was grand as the movies.
■ VERB
sit
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The hawks and falcons sat hunched on their perches, lost in some inner world of stoop and updraught.
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So we sat hunched at our desks, blackening out the story and accompanying pictures.
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He sat hunched by the stern cleat, knife ready to cut the Zodiac free.
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The room is quiet, as every child sits hunched over a piece of writing.
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Employees sit hunched over their screens, or chat by the coffee machine.
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Now he sits hunched over on the couch, wearing a roomy black overcoat with a pack of Marlboros in one pocket.
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The coachman sat hunched over the reins, waiting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His chin hung farther down on his chest as his shoulders hunched closer together.
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Seeing Michael Ryan smiling at them, they seemed to crowd together, hunching in their seats.
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The impulse to hit is curbed by hunching the shoulders.
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The molten light from the stove mottled the ceiling, dark furniture hunched away from it along the walls.
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They left off playing, let go hands and hunched forward as they left the alley and ent red the street.