hunch

Yet Robinson had a hunch that his protégé was about to prove the doubters wrong.

Now, instead of standing 20 deep at a ticker, everyone is hunched over their own devices, getting quotes as well as analysis and advice, trading on their lunch hour or on a beach vacation.

To outsiders, founder life might appear joyless—young people chasing their fortunes in one of America’s most picturesque cities without taking time to explore it, living on prepackaged meals eaten hunched at their computers.

It's summer 1998, and he's hunched over the turntables at New York's venerable VIP bar, Spy.

The stereotype of today’s teenagers as anxious loners hunched over their phones is limiting and inaccurate, she said, as four fellow volunteers nodded in agreement.