hutch

1 a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals

2 small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, shack, shanty]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌtʃ

Noun

1. A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
   • 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 16,

     To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled....

2. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed

Hutch may refer to:

• Hutch (furniture), a form of furniture
• Hutch (animal cage), a type of cage utilized primarily for housing domestic rabbits
• Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, one of the two main characters in the television series Starsky and Hutch
• Hutch (fictional character), a character in the film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson, a popular singer of the 1930s
• Hutch Essar, a cellular phone service provider in India, since renamed Vodafone Essar
• Hutchinson River Parkway, in Southern New York
• Jesse Hutch, actor
• Hutch (sound engineer), the sound and lighting man for Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age
• Michael Hutchence, vocalist for INXS
• Hutchison Whampoa, a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Hutch, a BMX brand
• A radiation shielding enclosure in a synchrotron radiation beamline is called a hutch
• A trough, used in ore dressing

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