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hunch
(redirected from hunches)

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have a hunch (that something is the case) and have a hunch about something
to have an idea about what did, will, or should happen; to have a feeling that something will or should happen. I had a hunch that you would be here when I arrived. I have a hunch about the way things will happen.
See also: have

hunch something up

to raise up or lift up some body part, usually the shoulders. He hunched his shoulders up in his effort to get warm. He hunched up his shoulders to keep warm.
See also: up

hunch over

[for someone] to bend over. The wounded man hunched over and staggered to the window. He was hunched over with pain.

hunch up

to squeeze or pull the parts of one's body together. He hunched up in a corner to keep warm. Why is that child hunched up in the corner?
See also: up


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Michael Rolince, the former head of the FBI's International Terrorism Operations Section, smugly insisted at trial that Samit's "suppositions, hunches and suspicions were one thing," while "what we knew" was another.
As in the previous books, the point isn't the lightweight, easily solved mystery but Bunny and Jack's bantering relationship as they follow the clues and their hunches to solve the crime.
Joanne Brunn's basic premise is that we all are both with psychic skills revealed by hunches or 'gut feelings', and that these instincts come from a core intuitive nature which is phased out during childhood.
 
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