verb. (old: now colloquial).—To jostle; to shove; to squeeze. For synonyms, see RAMP.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HUNCH, to justle, or thrust.
1712. ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull, Pt. III., App., ch. iii. Then Jack’s friends began to HUNCH and push one another.
1738. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, Dial. 1. I was HUNCHED up in a hackney-coach with three country acquaintance.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1847. W. T. PORTER, ed., A Quarter Race in Kentucky, etc., p. 163. I hadn’t fairly got to sleep befote the old ’oman HUNCHED me.
