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lunch
[ luhnch ]
lunch
/ lʌntʃ /
noun
- a meal eaten during the middle of the day
- (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
verb
- intr to eat lunch
- tr to provide or buy lunch for
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Derived Forms
- ˈluncher, noun
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Other Words From
- luncher noun
- lunchless adjective
- pre·lunch adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lunch1
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Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing lunch
see eat someone alive (someone's lunch) ; free lunch ; lose one's lunch ; out to (lunch) .Discover More
Example Sentences
According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.
Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.
On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
I'm to be at his Universal bungalow at twelve-thirty for lunch, to meet him for the first time, going to see a man about a job.
HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
I often recall the farewell lunch we had together at the Restaurant de Paris, in the Escolta.
He paid for the lunch, and tipped the waiters so liberally that they all hoped he would come again often.
I'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.
At lunch he was the greatest possible fun, bubbling over with jokes and witty sallies.
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