hunch

It's summer 1998, and he's hunched over the turntables at New York's venerable VIP bar, Spy.

The stereotype of today’s teenagers as anxious loners hunched over their phones is limiting and inaccurate, she said, as four fellow volunteers nodded in agreement.

Before the game, he marched through the clubhouse and hunched over his locker, leafing through a scouting report while teammates carefully tip-toed around him.

The Atlanta Falcons were the first to detect that hunch, scooping Landman out of Colorado as an undrafted rookie.

His only involvement for the rest of the day was marshalling his team in the field, often hunched over with hands on knees.