Usually means: Intuitive feeling about something unknown.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word hunch:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hunch, hunch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hunch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hunch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hunch, hunch: Wordnik
  7. hunch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hunch: Wiktionary
  9. hunch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hunch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hunch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hunch, hunch: Dictionary.com
  13. hunch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hunch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hunch (album), Hunch (website), Hunch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hunch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hunch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hunch: Rhymezone
  19. hunch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hunch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hunch: Free Dictionary
  22. hunch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hunch: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. hunch: Legal dictionary

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  1. hunch: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunch: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hunch: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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