To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
|passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}
To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
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 push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
A hump; a protuberance.
A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.