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craunch

  [krawnch, krahnch]
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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), noun
crunch.
Origin:
1625–35; var. of cranch

Related forms:
craunch⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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crunch

  [kruhnch]
–verb (used with object)
1. to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
2. to crush or grind noisily.
3. to tighten or squeeze financially: The administration's policy seems to crunch the economy in order to combat inflation.
–verb (used without object)
4. to chew with a crushing sound.
5. to produce, or proceed with, a crushing noise.
–noun
6. an act or sound of crunching.
7. a shortage or reduction of something needed or wanted: the energy crunch.
8. distress or depressed conditions due to such a shortage or reduction: a budget crunch.
9. a critical or dangerous situation: When the crunch comes, just do your best.
—Idiom
10. crunch numbers, Computers.
a. to perform a great many numerical calculations or extensive manipulations of numerical data.
b. to process a large amount of data.
Also, craunch.

Origin:
1795–1805; b. craunch and crush

Related forms:
crunch⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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crunch

  1. n.
    a crisis; a time of pressure or tightness, especially of a budget. : The budget crunch meant that we couldn't take trips to Europe anymore.
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

crunch 
1814, from craunch (1631), probably of imitative origin. The noun is 1836, from the verb; the sense of "critical moment" was popularized by Winston Churchill, whose first recorded use of it was in 1939. Crunchy is from 1892; student slang sense of "annoyingly intense about health or environmental issues" is 1980s, short for crunchy granola; not entirely pejorative at first.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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