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lunch

[luhnch]
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.

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Lunch is always a great word to know.
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an act or instance of being taken advantage of or cheated; an instance of being attacked or defeated decisively
a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty
verb (used with object)
5.
to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.
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.

Origin:
1585–95; short for luncheon

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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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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