(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.
Scrunch
Definition:
(v. t. & v. i.) To scranch; to crunch.
Example Sentences:
(1) I scanned quickly through the available faces: there was one, all scrunched up in dismay about something or other.
(2) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(3) Crack in the egg and use your hands to scrunch everything together.
(4) He showed me a scrunched piece of paper, which was thrown into a school playground.
(5) He's scrunching up his eyes in order to forget the pain.
(6) 47 min Busquets pulls a short corner back to Alonso, who scrunches it miles over the bar from 20 yards.
(7) And learning the Korean for, “I need to go to the toilet,” would have saved me countless afternoons of scrunch-faced detergent-soaked floor-scrubbing.
(8) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
(9) I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just put on extra pairs of underwear and threw them away one-by-one, scrunched at the bottom of the bathroom trash bin, as I bled through them.
(10) When it came to paying, he pulled a pile of £50 notes out of his pocket, most of them scrunched up like used tissues.
(11) It may help to hold the potatoes in a scrunched-up towel.
(12) I was finishing at four [am] some days.” He cracks up again, the sound like a crisp packet being scrunched.
(13) Despite its hero's ineptitude, Goldfinger is full of quintessential Bond moments, all of which have since been recycled or spoofed so many times you forget this is where they began – Bond tricking the jailer into opening his cell door, a minor bad guy's car reduced to a scrunched-up cube in a scrapyard compactor, the villain shooting his own henchmen.
(14) 4 Scrunch up a large piece of greaseproof paper into a ball and smooth it back out again (I promisethis makes it much easier to work with).
(15) Apartment blocks were smashed, steel beams scrunched and metal fences shredded by shrapnel.
(16) And the final ball is fended away, quite possibly with his eyes scrunched close.
(17) He has scrunched up an entire stone corner of the London School of Economics into a rocky tumble, hanging precipitously above the street in Aldwych, and sliced a Thames dredger in half and anchored it outside the Millennium Dome.
(18) She is as chic and telegenic as he is overly tanned and scrunch-faced.
(19) Indoor ball games These are best played with a scrunched-up ball of paper.
(20) A copy of the Sun with the money edging up to £50,000 was found carefully folded in his flat, unlike a Daily Mirror, which was scrunched in the bin.