0 an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof:
[ + that ] I had a hunch that you'd be here.
1 to lean forward with your shoulders raised or to bend your back and shoulders into a rounded shape:
2 an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof:
[ + that clause ] I had a hunch that you’d be here.
3 to lean forward with your shoulders raised or to bend your back and shoulders into a rounded shape:
Playful observations of everyday life and discontinuities in logic allow gamblers to translate dreams and other visions and occurrences into ' hunches'.
To compound matters, the investigations to support our clinical hunches in young patients are not nearly as useful in later life, and have to be interpreted with caution.
Everybody was hunched up wondering whether it would be himself or somebody else.
Many of us have very decided views on many questions of this kind, though they are mostly in the category of "hunches".
We should also make the situation clear to allow people to pursue their hunches on the best way forward.
We should not legislate on hunches or on selected statistics.
Many people have ideas, prejudices, theories and hunches, but it is difficult to make up one's mind what should happen to delinquents.
I think it wrong in this case to proceed by hunches.
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