(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.
Slouch
Definition:
(n.) A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
(n.) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
(v. i.) To droop, as the head.
(v. i.) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
(v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
(2) Clearly, Page 3 is ridiculous and anachronistic, and it never fails to astonish my American friends when they come to Britain (although I'm not quite sure why they should be so shocked, seeing as most of them come from the city of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, which is no slouch itself at reducing women to sex objects ).
(3) With due respect to Donovan's apparent replacement, Brad Davis, the left-footed set piece threat he offers doesn't, at first glance, outweigh the other areas of the game where Donovan still looks a better option (and Donovan's no slouch on set pieces either, it should be noted).
(4) Mario Götze, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos, André Schürrle, Shkodran Mustafi and Roman Weidenfeller enacted an old football chant that had previously only been seen on the terraces, jumping and waving as they sang "That's what the Germans look like," then slouching with hanging heads to the words "That's what the Gauchos (Argentinians) look like".
(5) He accepted the description used by Bob Geldof, well known for his own use of Anglo-Saxon words, as “no slouch” when it comes to swearing.
(6) It also confers a responsibility on the audience to be attentive, to "assist" (as the French say) the performance: there is no room to slouch or hide in this tiny arena.
(7) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.
(8) I was due to interview 2 Chainz properly tomorrow, but he's in a carpe diem mood: "If I'm saying let's do it, then you should take advantage," he says, slouched in a chair with a blunt in his hand.
(9) Close up your counting house on Christmas Eve and watch your clerk slide homewards along the ice slide on Cornhill, before slouching around the corner to take your “melancholy dinner” in the “usual melancholy tavern”.
(10) Putin looked relaxed before the meeting, slouching in his chair, while Yanukovych sat bolt upright and spoke with long pauses between sentences.
(11) However, when individual behavioral responses were considered, the change in lymphocyte activation during separation was significantly related to behavioral responses which reflected disturbance, such that the change in lymphocyte activation following in vitro stimulation with the mitogens phytohemagglutinin and Concanavalin A (markers of the immunocompetence of T lymphocytes) was related to levels of vocalization and time spent in slouched postures.
(12) With Labor unable to provide its base with any compelling reason to vote, Australia goes to the polls today in a mood of generalised cynicism – and Abbott's likely to slouch towards Canberra as a result.
(13) There is a satirical cartoon doing the rounds online in Russia that depicts a figure slouched in front of a television set, both the screen and the anonymous viewer’s brain filled with identical swirls of bewildering electronic static.
(14) Now, when I went in to register the agents looked up in hope that I’d come to offer my property for sale, then collapsed in a disappointed slouch.
(15) Gray is quick and found himself with the whole of the United half to run into but Luke Shaw is no slouch either and caught up with the striker.
(16) A slouching gaggle of twentysomethings have come to watch these qualifying battles live, though most of them don't arrive until after lunchtime.
(17) Most of those present are teenagers not old enough to vote, slouching on beanbags, texting or nodding their heads to the beat on their headphones.
(18) Later Maxine Carr would insist that on her return from Grimsby the entire duvet and its cover were cleaned and wet in the washing machine, although Ian Huntley (a 'slob' who slouched on the couch, never washed up, never used the vacuum cleaner) didn't even know how to use the machine.
(19) Tsarnaev slouched; his hair was large and fluffy, and he wore a scrappy beard on his chin.
(20) He’s got an extraordinary network of donors around the country and I know he’ll be a strong candidate if he runs.” Rubio, who no slouch in fundraising, would have to catch up to Bush and Romney.