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lunch
[ luhnch ]
lunch
/ ʌԳʃ /
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
Derived Forms
- ˈܲԳ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲԳİ noun
- ܲԳl adjective
- ·ܲԳ adjective noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lunch1
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) .Example Sentences
The administration has used federal funding for once nonpartisan programs, such as school lunches and disaster relief, as a tool to threaten state officials who disagree with the president’s priorities.
Prosecutors have dropped some of the charges against an Australian woman accused of killing three relatives and seriously injuring another with a toxic mushroom lunch.
She continued to give evidence after a short break, but the jury were sent home for the day after lunch, with the judge telling them a "matter of law" had arisen.
She bought her family a Valentine’s Day lunch at Sizzler, treating her mom to the buffet and her dad to his favorite steak and shrimp dish.
A previous court hearing heard Harvey was stabbed twice in the chest while on a lunch break at the school.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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