hunch over

Curve your back and shoulders forward over something, like a desk or a book.

"She spent the whole afternoon hunched over her laptop, barely moving."

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Abroad in Japan · 12:13

hunch over tiny charcoal grills to palaces of gastronomy

Her incredible journey becoming a nun

No Backup Plan – Nathaniel Drew · 14:10

I would just hunch over I still have that posture from those years

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