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lunching

[luhnch] Origin

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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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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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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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lunching definition


  1. mod.
    absent minded; giddy; out to lunch. : What a giddy twit. He's so lunching!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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