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Hunkers

Hunkers \Hun"kers\, n. pl. [See Hunker.] In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position; haunches. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]

Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge.
--Kipling.

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hunkers

n. 1 (context dated English) (plural of hunker English) 2 The haunches vb. (en-third-person singular of: hunker)

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Minogue stayed on his hunkers, already putting up that shield between his own shock and fear and the body which had been a living person.