Usually means: Upper leg and buttock region.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. haunch: Merriam-Webster
  2. haunch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haunch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haunch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haunch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haunch, haunch: Wordnik
  7. haunch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. haunch: Wiktionary
  9. haunch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haunch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haunch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Haunch, haunch: Dictionary.com
  13. haunch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. haunch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Haunch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Haunch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. haunch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. haunch: Rhymezone
  19. Haunch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. haunch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. haunch: FreeDictionary.org
  22. haunch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. haunch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. haunch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. haunch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. haunch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. haunch -: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haunch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haunch: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Haunch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Haunch: Construction Glossary
  2. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See haunching as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.
noun:  The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food.
noun:  (architecture) A squat vertical support structure.
noun:  (dialect) A jerked underhand throw.
verb:  (transitive, architecture) To provide with a haunch or supporting structure.
verb:  (transitive, dialect) To throw with an underhand movement.

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