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How to pronounce hunch in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms intuition, suspicion
Type of belief, feeling, impression, notion, opinion
Has types bosom, heart
Type Words
Synonyms hump, hunch forward, hunch over
Type of change posture
Type Words
Type of bending

Examples of hunch

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On the way back out through the Microfilm collection, I decided to play a hunch.
From the post-gazette.com
Women and men in another room hunch over sewing machines, hemming cotton towels.
From the boston.com
Hunch over your computer and you'll push your bulging belly out in front of you.
From the him.uk.msn.com
Just a hunch that both maligned QB's, Cutler and Mark Sanchez, will get it done.
From the omaha.com
You'll hunch over fried egg sandwiches and a shared short stack and commiserate.
From the denverpost.com
The computer screen should be at eye level so you don't have to hunch to see it.
From the latimes.com
At 5-feet-11-inches tall, Mrs. Obama had to hunch over a bit to use the machine.
From the suntimes.com
The case for Zorn seemed to come down to Snyder's personal hunch, a gut feeling.
From the washingtonpost.com
My personal hunch is that newspapers will have some issues in the years to come.
From the mattcutts.com
More examples
  • Intuition: an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"
  • Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
  • The act of bending yourself into a humped position
  • (hunched) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
  • Hunch was a website designed as a collective intelligence decision-making system ("decision engine") that used decision trees to make decisions based on users' interest. Hunch was launched publicly in June 2009. Hunch was headquartered in New York City. The site was apparently closed down in March 2014.
  • (The Hunches) The Hunches was a garage punk band from Portland, Oregon. The Hunches comprised bass player Sarah Epstein, singer Hart Geldhill, guitarist Chris Gunn, and drummer Ben Spencer. ...
  • A stooped or curled posture; a slouch; A theory, idea, or guess; A hunk (piece of something); To slouch, stoop, curl, or lean
  • (Hunching) means shoving your hand over the mark as you shoot. Hunching is unfair, and if a good shot is made and the player making it is caught in the act of hunching he should be made to shoot over again and shoot fair.
  • A guess or feeling not based on known facts