hunching

/ˈhʌntʃɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
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).
To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
The motion by which something is hunched.

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