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What does hunkered mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hunker
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The village usually had a store with gas pumps out front, and a cooler hunkered squarely beside the entrance.
I spent my summer vacation at computer camp, hunkered over a keyboard programming an adventure game.
The obsessive artist spent hours hunkered over his mortar and pestle, grinding, grinding, mixing.
He hunkered down in a patch of magnolias like a tomcat preparing to pounce.
We reached the summit, hunkered below the skyline and began glassing the open swoops and dips of sagebrush terrain.
She stopped in surprise, as she stared at Alex, hunkered over in the corner.

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