A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
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.
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 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 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.
An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
The antecedent of a conditional statement.