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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.
–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


luncher, noun
lunchless, adjective
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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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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