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Meanings of hunker down in English
Portuguese
ficar de cócoras Catalan
arraulir-se To move into a crouching position with knees bent and the buttocks on or near the heels.
Usage of hunker down in English
1
Not so bad for them; they could hunker down, even under fire.
2
Tongan residents were told hunker down and prepare for the storm's arrival.
3
We backpedal, hunker down in a stairwell, and squint into the light.
4
The dead, who used to hunker down to hide, had turned skittish.
5
They didn't hunker down where they were in safety, Romney said.
6
There is a time to travel hard and a time to hunker down.
7
I'm once again calling on Wisconsinites to hunker down, Evers said.
8
We'll probably just hunker down... and hope that it's all okay.
9
We are magic; we can hunker down and figure it out.
10
They just hunker down and wait for us to go by.
11
Given the uncertainty, the two bankers were telling their clients to hunker down.
12
Steal a few credits and hunker down out of the line of fire?
13
I reckon ez how ye'd better hunker down and lie clost, you two.
14
Maybe hunker down on top of it and swallow it whole?
15
Mature Burmese pythons eat maybe once a month, then hunker down to digest.
16
Mom and Clara hunker down beside me behind a broken crate.
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New Zealand
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United States of America
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Ireland
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