"hunches" in the noun sense
1. intuition, hunch, suspicion
an impression that something might be the case
"he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"
2. hunch
the act of bending yourself into a humped position
"hunches" in the verb sense
1. hunch, hump, hunch forward, hunch over
round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
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