Usually means: Intuitive feelings guiding beliefs, decisions.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunches: Merriam-Webster
  2. hunches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hunches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hunches, hunches: Wordnik
  5. hunches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hunches: Wiktionary
  7. hunches: Dictionary.com
  8. hunches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Hunches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hunches: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunches: Legal dictionary

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  1. hunches: Idioms

(Note: See hunch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hunch)

noun:  A hump; a protuberance.
noun:  A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
noun:  A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
noun:  A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
noun:  A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
verb:  (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
verb:  (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
verb:  (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
verb:  (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
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