Usually means: Settle in securely for duration.
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  1. hunker down: Merriam-Webster
  2. hunker down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunker down: Vocabulary.com
  4. hunker-down, hunker down: Wordnik
  5. hunker down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hunker down: Wiktionary
  7. hunker down: Dictionary.com
  8. Hunker down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. hunker down: Rhymezone
  10. hunker down: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hunker down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hunker down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Hunker down: World Wide Words
  14. hunker down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hunker down: Encyclopedia

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  1. hunker down: Idioms

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  1. hunker down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hunker down)

verb:  (idiomatic) To take shelter; to prepare oneself for some eventuality; to focus on a task.
verb:  (idiomatic) To stubbornly hold to a position.

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