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lunch

[luhnch]

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noun

a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.

any light meal or snack.

a restaurant or lunchroom: Let's eat at the dairy lunch.

verb (used without object)

to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.

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verb (used with object)

to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.

Idiom

out to lunch, Slang. not paying attention or tending to business; negligent: You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.

Origin:
1585–95; short for luncheon

Related forms

lunch·er, noun

lunch·less, adjective

pre·lunch, adjective, noun

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Example Sentences

Lunch arrives in a rustle of brown paper bags at a table under white birches.

Also as chair, you will have many more lunch and dinner meetings than you had as a faculty member.

Drinking during lunch is still acceptable in some workplaces/industries.

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Lunch arrives in a rustle of brown paper bags at a table under white birches.

Also as chair, you will have many more lunch and dinner meetings than you had as a faculty member.

Drinking during lunch is still acceptable in some workplaces/industries.

Reuse burlap coffee bean bags as durable lunch bags.

So if you're thinking about asking the boss for something special, you might want to do it right after a nice lunch.

Whether you pack or buy, lunch is a favorite time for school children and workers alike.

These make a healthful, filling, and tasty lunch or light supper.

My school lunch box contained the same thing every single day.

Schools receiving federal lunch subsidies must now create wellness plans.

Pack a lunch the night before, unless you have a lunch engagement with someone important.

These moths must rely on some other way of not becoming a bat's lunch.

It could lose its lunch entirely, however, if a dominant hyena challenges it.

Lots of kids need a high calorie lunch to get them through the rest of the day and through after school sports practices.

They sat down at the whites-only lunch counter and refused to get up.

Refreshing recipes make a splash at lunch or dinner.

First, lunch the journalists concerned, ostensibly to discuss some other story.

Playground bullies may reap rewards other than extra lunch money.

But if it had been cool and cloudy, the mangabeys looked elsewhere for lunch.

Locals' favorite gathering place for breakfast or lunch.

The ideal project is one where people don't have meetings, they have lunch.

Higher rates on the rich are not, then, a free lunch.

Employers who provide for mental health care may cultivate a better balance sheet as well as a happier lunch room.

Following a short and welcome nap, a small group of us met for lunch.

Pack a container of these fudgy brownies for treats after lunch or dinner.

The size of the team should be the size of the lunch table.

He keeps his diet estimably rich in vegetables and spends lunch hours at the gym.

Lunch was paid for with change in our pockets or purses.

It makes a great light lunch or, in smaller portions, a first course for a special dinner.

It's as if the restaurant suddenly didn't have to pay any food or labor costs for that lunch.

No need for airsickness bags on jets, so those make nice lunch bags if you get off the plane with unused ones.

Try this healthful salad as a light lunch or dinner served with some crusty, whole-grain bread.

Think of the forlorn looks at the chow hall at what the next guy gets to eat for lunch.

Kids would have to pack drippy citrus into their lunch boxes.

Perhaps this fast food impatience effect is produced by fast food coffee or a too short lunch break.

She showed up for lunch on a recent sunny day in a sashed.

The primary topic of our lunch conversation was how much.

Sadly, the metal lunch box has mostly gone the way of the overhead projector.

Fall lunch recipes that showcase the bounty of the season.

My advisor took me and my parents to lunch at a lovely restaurant in a local museum.

Few allow their employees to drink at lunch time, let alone earlier in the day.

Buy your children reusable water bottles and lunch boxes.

Both the smart phone and lunch box represent intermediate steps in my opinion.

If you take a few minutes to put your lunch together instead of reaching for a packaged or take-out meal, you'll likely eat.

The primary topic of our lunch conversation was how much she doesn't want to do this anymore.

He jogged with an iPod, spoke in plain language, even invited unionists to lunch.

It was a long day of traveling to get to the rain forest and they gave us lunch on the boat.

Stroll through our beautiful sculpture garden, visit our museum shops and enjoy a delicious lunch or snack at our café.

The governor had offered students and mothers a chance to have lunch with her.

The blackberries are fat and tart, abundant enough to make a lunch.

Besides being not much bigger than a lunch box, this pipsqueak of a portable pumps.

Forming a support group is as easy as inviting a few friends to lunch or happy hour.

But his jailers gave him too much food for lunch and not enough for supper.

After all, the reptile can grow its heart in the time it takes to eat its lunch.

No time for lunch and had baked beans and hot chips for dinner.

And yes, the players normally stop for lunch and tea.

Paired with a salad, they make a handsome, satisfying entrée for lunch or a simple supper.

The bill for lunch arrives, but you've left your wallet in the car.

None of the youths integrating lunch counters had a camera or a phone.

Every rubbish skip has ragged children in it, foraging for lunch.

Muskrat lunch was also available in the school cafeteria.

You've ditched your environmentally indefensible reliance on disposable water bottles, but your lunch bags aren't much better.

They are both softcover workbooks that you can take everywhere to catch some extra studying on the bus or on your lunch hour.

Sloan used to hit the martinis at lunch when they were working on the book together.

My biggest weight gain problem is eating lunch out with social groups.

In northern cities, he'd dined at lunch counters and attended cinemas alongside whites.

The camps are on college campuses, and so lunch is usually at the college cafeteria.

If someone in the department is taking the speaker out to lunch or dinner, ask if you can go, too.

Always impeccably dressed, he regularly took a gourmet lunch with him on his ballooning expeditions.

Old age sucks meat, especially lunch meat and chicken.

These are grown men who feel naked going out to lunch with nothing but a shirt on their backs.

School lunch programs across the country are even adding soy to hamburger patties.

Asking what he had for lunch restores humanity to a living legend.

We will finish the qualifying matches before lunch today.

His explanations at his laboratory were clear, and the soup at the lunch delicious.

But a floating-rate system is not a free lunch either.

After lunch the top teams will select their alliances for the division playoffs.

During the lunch hour, office lights are switched off, and on rainy days.

What followed lunch that day was a serendipitous discovery.

Unlike mortal dads, however, he creates works of pure lunch genius:.

Another interesting but more obscure item would be the lunch box.

The weather station that showed warming was out to lunch.

But he kept the lean look of a man who still worried about tickets and guitar strings, and who did not have time for lunch.

That's where conversations over the lunch table come into play:.

In short, give other browsers a sense of where you're headed professionally, not where you're going for lunch.

As everyone knows, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

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World English Dictionary

lunch (lʌntʃ)

—n
1.	a meal eaten during the middle of the day
2.	(Caribbean) (among older people) mid-afternoon tea

—vb
3.	(intr) to eat lunch
4.	(tr) to provide or buy lunch for

[C16: probably short form of luncheon]

'luncher

—n

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Word Origin & History

lunch

modern sense of "mid-day repast" is 1829, shortened form of luncheon. The verb meaning "to take to lunch" is attested from 1823.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

lunch

see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).