(v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
(v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(2) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(3) We provide evidence that bicoid (bcd) and hunch-back (hb) gene products, as well as at least one other activator, are needed to activate Kr expression in the central domain.
(4) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(5) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(6) Clinical signs in mice were squinting and distended testes in males, and in rats, rapid respiration (all doses), squinting, and hunching.
(7) At one point Serena hunched over and covered her face with her hands.
(8) "My hunch is that China is going to interpret this as war," he said.
(9) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(10) "My hunch is that if this was a serious crisis we would see indications of it," she said.
(11) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
(12) Silent, head bowed, shoulders hunched in an ill-fitting suit, Oscar Pistorius would have attracted little attention from a casual observer unaware of his central role in the drama under way on Monday, in a nondescript ground floor courtroom in Pretoria.
(13) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(14) The only real calculation is the division of 530,000 by anticipated audience size; if the pen-pushers have it right, their budget wins - and if I had to play a hunch, I'd say it probably will.
(15) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
(16) It would be nice if we could say this was because the media had learned their lessons and recognised the importance of scientific evidence, rather than one bloke's hunch.
(17) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
(18) His magazine, launched last year on a hunch and a shoestring, covers music, but not just music - it will interview Matt Groening or Anthony Beevor or the creator of the iPod alongside rock stars chosen for their articulacy rather than their looks, such as Morrissey, Elvis Costello and Neil Tennant (who once worked with Hepworth and Ellen at Smash Hits).
(19) It means that his tactical hunches, l ike taking off Jasper Cillessen and putting Tim Krul in goal for the penalty shoot-out against Costa Rica , tend to come off.
(20) These things should be set out long before the government makes any decision, and certainly before any more senior ministers diminish themselves by making off-the-cuff assertions rooted in hunches or Labour party politics.
Munch
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.
Example Sentences:
(1) The munching, and some data crunching, produced firm statistical findings ("The flavour cowy was correlated with age and sourness, but was not correlated to any other flavours or tastes").
(2) This will be proof for many that Nick Clegg is indeed a latte-sipping, windsurfing, arugula [rocket]-munching Euro-snob.
(3) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(4) It's not bad," he said, munching with an open mouth.
(5) It's about Jesus, a Downton Abbey Christmas special and munching mince pies.
(6) Yesterday many of us overindulged in chocolate, but Easter is not the only time we munch our way through mounds of cocoa-based treats.
(7) Sip a pot of its Galway Cream Tea (€6.95) from antique bone china cups while also munching on melt-in-the-mouth feta cheese tart or gluten-free sweet treats such as beetroot and chocolate cake.
(8) It is a smart space, spare, industrial and fronted, amusingly, by a wide strip of vivid green Astroturf where you can take a seat and munch outdoors.
(9) The CAMP (Christie-Atkins-Munch-Petersen) test is commonly used for the presumptive identification of Streptococcus agalactiae (Lancefield group B).
(10) When one David Toska was arrested in April 2005 and charged with leading the Stavanger robbery, Stensrud told Norwegian papers he believed this would lead to the discovery of the Munch paintings - that's how convinced he already was of the link between the two crimes.
(11) The "Genius" feature in the latest version of iTunes is getting a lot of attention: you pick a track in your iTunes library, and after a bit of munching away – and talking to Apple's online servers at the iTunes Store – it will come up with a list of 25 or more tracks that it thinks "go with" the track you selected.
(12) The sense of horror Edvard Munch captured in The Scream is the terror he felt upon seeing Instagram names such thigh_gap_please and Twitter accounts such as @CarasThighGap .
(13) Stensrud floated the theory that perhaps the Munch Museum robbery was actually an attempt to divert police resources from their armed-robbery-and-murder hunt in Stavanger.
(14) Jackie Ashley: No longer seen as muesli-munching weirdos It was a cheeky question asked of Nick Clegg at this morning's manifesto launch, but one that had to be asked: wasn't it the case that Vince Cable was the one Lib Dem politician everyone admired, and how did that make Clegg feel?
(15) Their denial fits perfectly with their support for free market economics, opposition to state intervention and hatred of all those latte-slurping, quinoa-munching liberals, with their arrogant manners and dainty hybrid cars, who presume to tell honest men and women how to live.
(16) As the sun sinks gently over the marshes, the birds are singing and a horse is munching happily in a field.
(17) Within 30 seconds, Cameron won round the audience as he explained how he had been joking - in between munches on a slice of the Test Match Special cake - that he would be working that evening, in contrast to the "holiday" time of watching cricket.
(18) R I remember choking on a Monster Munch when I was on my Chopper.
(19) I sit with him and munch on a plain salad, going "Mmm, this is delicious''.
(20) The human rights observers who shuttle to and from Guantánamo, munching on fried pickles at the Irish pub at the naval station, never shuttle to Bagram.