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crunch
noun- a most severe test of strength, courage, nerve, skill, etc. UK, 1939
- A kid points out that we’ve come to the big crunch. If you don’t go to the dean you’re suspended and you have the draft and prison. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 62, 1968
- “Crunch” is a word currently favored by the keener journalists. It means the showdown, the moment of truth. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 202, 1968
- CHARLIE [Michael Caine]: Right, here’s the crunch: do you all know how to get there? — Troy Kennedy Martin, The Italian Job [uncut script], 1969
- a number sign (#) on a computer keyboard US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 39, 1991
- a hospital patient with multiple fractures US, 1989
- — Maledicta, p. 32, 1988–89: “Medical maledicta from San Francisco”
- an Afrikaner SOUTH AFRICA, 1970
Also “crunchie.” Derogatory and offensive.
▶ do your crunch
to become enraged UK
Army use.- You shoulda seen ‘im when ‘e found it–done ‘is crunch, ‘e did. — 1984
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