crunch
Use Crunch in a sentence
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.
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noun
Idioms 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.
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.
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crunch (krʌntʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to bite or chew (crisp foods) with a crushing or crackling sound |
| 2. | to make or cause to make a crisp or brittle sound: the snow crunched beneath his feet |
| —n | |
| 3. | the sound or act of crunching |
| 4. | short for abdominal crunch |
| 5. | informal the crunch the critical moment or situation |
| —adj | |
| 6. | informal critical; decisive: crunch time |
| [C19: changed (through influence of | |
| 'crunchable | |
| —adj | |
| 'crunchy | |
| —adj | |
| 'crunchily | |
| —adv | |
| 'crunchiness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
crunch
1814, from craunch (1630s), 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
crunch definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
crunch definition
1.
2.
3. The hash character. Used at XEROX and CMU, among other places.
4. To squeeze program source to the minimum size that will still compile or execute. The term came from a BBC Microcomputer program that crunched BBC BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (apart from storing keywords as byte codes, the language was wholly interpreted, so the number of characters mattered). Obfuscated C Contest entries are often crunched; see the first example under that entry.
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Example sentences
In these lean times fewer cows conceive, and fewer calves survive the crucial crunch of summer before the deadening of winter.
The credit crunch is really hitting a lot of electric car manufacturers.
If falling prices raise the rate of default, that could in turn worsen the credit crunch, putting yet more pressure on prices.
Instead of gliding down the aisle, you crunch down it, tromping on piles of dead bug bodies.
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