The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HUNCH
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More clues leading to the result HUNCH
- Feeling hot meal is missing starter
- Hump? That’s an idea!
- Barbarian companion’s irrational feeling
- Intuitive feeling in search unchanged
- Hint of deformity
- Intuitive feeling produced by hard part of crossword?
- Feeling impact if pressure is high
- Feeling Starsky's buddy has a change of heart
- Hot meal not starting feeling in the gut
- Hotel meal with no starter giving you the hump
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What does HUNCH mean?
HUNCH noun- A hump; a protuberance.
- A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
- A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
- A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
- A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
- To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.