crunch
IPA: krˈʌntʃ
noun
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- A critical moment or event.
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- (software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- (chiefly US) The symbol #.
- (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- (slang) A shortage.
verb
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- (automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
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Examples of "crunch" in Sentences
- Or it will crunch to singularity.
- Icelandic credit crunch development.
- Changed environment of the credit crunch.
- It's the end of the month deadline crunch.
- Crunch crunch, death to leviathan and all that.
- Credit crunch credit crunch cruch crunch crunch.
- It attributed this decision to the credit crunch.
- The crunch is one of the most common abdominal exercises.
- Just zoom into the image, count the pixels and crunch the numbers.
- Dorothy: Hey … Those are for Freyr … Cammy: * crunch crunch* Delicious!
- The leaves in the gloom began crunching under the swift weight of a creature.
- I made French Fries, listen to how crunchy they are ... * crunch crunch crunch* "I died laughing.
- Then there was a _crunch, crunch, crunch_, as if pippins were being reduced to pulp, and more twigs were heard to snap.
- The striker did get the nod for the title crunch with Chelsea but it was his first start against any of United's big-four rivals this season.
- She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the
- The shrimp tempura, despite being “made to order”, was totally soggy (the crunch is the whole reason to get it!), and while I enjoyed the “special” giant shumai, it was nearly giant enough to be worth the $1.50.
- There was plenty of noise and bustle going on about the deck where the lanthorns burned, and the trampling of feet, and shouts that sounded like orders came now and then; but the principal sound just there by the port-hole through which the light came was the _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the biscuit.
- She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat.
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