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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 yvlog Forms
- ܲԳİ noun
- ܲԳl adjective
- ·ܲԳ adjective noun
yvlog 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
Then there’s breakfast-for-all brought to the classroom, followed later by a snack, lunch, more snacks for after-school programs and sometimes a dinner sent home for the child.
A security officer forced an 11-year-old girl to duct-tape her mouth shut at a Pasadena middle school because she was talking too loud and giggling during a lunch break, according to the girl’s father.
A woman and a much younger man meet for lunch in Manhattan, the tensions high but their relationship unknown, while in another book, a fractured family meets in Shanghai around a hospital bed.
He says her mother was having lunch when the devastating earthquake began.
In the summer the two would spend afternoons by the river, having lunch and catching up on the news.
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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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