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hunker down

verb as in squat down

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“We’re going to be hunkering down,” she said, “and taking lots of Vitamin C.”

Maria Bowman, 60, hunkered down in her bright pink mobile home in North Fort Myers, rode out Milton's fierce winds.

From BBC

If it continues on its projected track, by Thursday it will likely hit Orlando, another densely populated metropolitan area, where millions of people have either evacuated or hunkered down.

From Salon

Time and time again, he would hunker down in the family home he was raised in, where he now lives with his eight-year-old daughter and partner.

From BBC

But Republicans aren’t just hunkered down trying to preserve their bare majority.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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