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cinch
1[ sinch ]
noun
- a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- a firm hold or tight grip.
- Informal.
- something sure or easy:
This problem is a cinch.
- a person or thing certain to fulfill an expectation, especially a team or contestant certain to win a sporting event:
The Giants are a cinch to win Sunday's game.
verb (used with object)
- to gird with a cinch; gird or bind firmly.
- Informal. to seize on or make sure of; guarantee:
Ability and hard work cinched her success.
cinch
2[ sinch ]
noun
- a variety of the game all fours.
cinch
1/ sɪntʃ /
noun
- a card game in which the five of trumps ranks highest
cinch
2/ sɪntʃ /
noun
- slang.an easy task
- slang.a certainty
- a band around a horse's belly to keep the saddle in position Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)girth
- informal.a firm grip
verb
- often foll by up to fasten a girth around (a horse)
- informal.tr to make sure of
- informal.tr to get a firm grip on
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Example Sentences
And, thanks to a transparent hull, exploring the deep and spotting rare marine life is practically a cinch.
Cinch an Inch…Or Seven But are waist cinchers the secret to a smaller waist?
Cinch the waist, tighten the tummy, raise the rear, there is a shape shifter designed for every job.
The historical record suggests it should cinch the contest for the Democrats.
We'll be watched every minute of the time that we prowl around those painted rocks; that's a cinch.
You've done a big thing to-day, and if you hadn't had more pluck and ginger than common, it's a cinch you'd have lost out.
He sleeps at night with his nose against th' shingled roof iv his little frame home an' dhreams iv cinch bugs.
We'll cinch that 'strike' of dad's, and Hawley'll be so badly beaten he'll never know what struck him.
We thought sure we had a cinch on the coin several hours ago!
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