lunch
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noun
1.
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
2.
any light meal or snack.
3.
a restaurant or lunchroom: Let's eat at the dairy lunch.
verb (used without object)
4.
to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.
verb (used with object)
5.
to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.
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6.
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.
Related forms
lunch·er, noun
lunch·less, adjective
pre·lunch, adjective, noun
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World English Dictionary
lunch (lʌntʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| '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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
lunch
see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
The first official meal of the trip is lunch at this hotel, once a hospital for the nobility.
They are a perfect meal for lunch or dinner because they can be complete nutritionally and aren't heavy.
The coat of a blue suit with white flannel or duck trousers for a lunch, or to church, in the country.
The participants returned later in the day, about an hour after eating lunch, and repeated the blind taste tests.
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