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hunker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb hunker has 1 sense
- hunker(v = verb.contact) crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat - sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" is one way to sit, sit down
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CIDE DICTIONARY
hunker, n.
Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [1913 Webster]
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