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clutch

1  [kluhch]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
2. to grip or hold tightly or firmly: She clutched the child's hand as they crossed the street.
3. Slang. to spellbind; grip a person's emotions, attention, or interest: Garbo movies really clutch me.
–verb (used without object)
4. to try to seize or grasp (usually fol. by at): He clutched at the fleeing child. She clutched at the opportunity.
5. Slang. to become tense with fright; panic (sometimes fol. by up): I clutched up on the math exam.
6. to operate the clutch in a vehicle.
–noun
7. the hand, claw, etc., when grasping.
8. Usually, clutches. power of disposal or control; mastery: She fell into the clutches of the enemy.
9. the act of clutching; a snatch or grasp.
10. a tight grip or hold.
11. a device for gripping something.
12. Automotive, Machinery.
a. a mechanism for readily engaging or disengaging a shaft with or from another shaft or rotating part. Compare coupling (def. 2a).
b. a control, as a pedal, for operating this mechanism.
13. Sports. an extremely important or crucial moment of a game: He was famous for his coolness in pitching in the clutch.
14. any critical position or situation; emergency: She kept complete control in the clutch.
15. Also called clutch bag, clutch purse. a woman's small purse that can be carried in the hand and usually has no handle or strap.
–adjective
16. done or accomplished in a critical situation: a clutch shot that won the basketball game.
17. dependable in crucial situations: a clutch player.
18. (of a coat) without fasteners; held closed in front by one's hand or arm.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME clucchen, var. of clicchen, OE clyccan to clench

Related forms:
clutch⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
clutchy, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See catch. 2. clench, squeeze, hug.
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clutch

2  [kluhch]
–noun
1. a hatch of eggs; the number of eggs produced or incubated at one time.
2. a brood of chickens.
3. a number of similar individuals: a clutch of books; a whole clutch of dancers.
–verb (used with object)
4. to hatch (chickens).
Origin:
1715–25; var. of cletch (now dial.); akin to Scots cleck to hatch < ON klekja to hatch
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clutch 1   (klŭch)   
v.   clutched, clutch·ing, clutch·es

v.   tr.

  1. To grasp and hold tightly.

  2. To seize; snatch.

v.   intr.

  1. To attempt to grasp or seize: clutch at a life raft.

  2. To engage or disengage a motor vehicle's clutch.

n.  

  1. A hand, claw, talon, or paw in the act of grasping.

  2. A tight grasp.

  3. Control or power. Often used in the plural: caught in the clutches of sin.

  4. A device for gripping and holding.

    1. Any of various devices for engaging and disengaging two working parts of a shaft or of a shaft and a driving mechanism.

    2. The apparatus, such as a lever or pedal, that activates one of these devices.

  6. A tense, critical situation: came through in the clutch.

  7. A clutch bag.

adj.   Informal

  1. Being or occurring in a tense or critical situation: won the championship by sinking a clutch putt.

  2. Tending to be successful in tense or critical situations: The coach relied on her clutch pitcher.


[Middle English clucchen, from Old English clyccan.]
clutch 2   (klŭch)   
n.  

  1. The complete set of eggs produced or incubated at one time.

  2. A brood of chickens.

  3. A group; a bunch.

tr.v.   clutched, clutch·ing, clutch·es
To hatch (chicks).

[Variant of dialectal cletch; akin to Middle English clekken, to hatch, from Old Norse klekja.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
clutch (up)

  1. in.
    to become very tense and anxious; to freeze with anxiety. : I have been known to clutch up before a race.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

clutch  (n.)
of chickens, eggs, 1721, from clekken "to hatch," probably from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. klekja "to hatch").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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