hunker 的 3 个定义
- to crouch or squat on one's heels: He hunkered to be at eye level with his dog.I can’t hunker with this bad knee.
- to hunch: The driver hunkered over the steering wheel.to hide, hide out, or take shelter, often for just a few hours or less, as from a pursuer or a storm: The escaped convicts hunkered in a cave in the mountains.to settle in to the safety of one’s home or other designated shelter for a potentially prolonged time, as would be necessitated by a natural disaster or an outbreak of a contagious disease: Many local residents hunkered in the basement of the fire station.
- Slang. to lumber along; walk or move slowly or aimlessly: A small black bear was seen hunkering through the neighborhood.
- hunkers, one's haunches.
- hunker down. See entry at hunker down.
hunker 近义词
crouch
更多hunker例句
- When I finally hunker down in a pub on the harbor, Google raises as many questions as it answers.
- When life gets traumatic do you prefer to hunker down and grieve in private, or open up to others?
- “The news is slanting in different directions,” Tom complains as he and Vickie hunker down in a bar.
- Administrations almost always hunker down in these situations and hope they pass.
- But I had to hunker down and do my job, live shot after live shot.
- It had been the settled understanding that one Hunker and one radical should be taken for the State delegates.
- The difficulty was at length solved by our passing our favorite men and assenting to elect Mr. Seymour and another Hunker.
- "Might as well hunker down right here on the ground," Jed said.
- One of the newcomers was from Hunker Creek, and he brought news of the doctor and the captain.
- Thus, "honker" or "hunker" meant one who "stayed put," and was opposed to progress.