Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A meal eaten at midday.
- noun The food provided for a midday meal.
- intransitive verb To eat a midday meal.
- idiom (out to lunch) Not in touch with the real world; crazy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take a lunch or luncheon.
- noun A large lump or piece, as of bread.
- noun A slight repast or meal between breakfast and dinner, or, as formerly, between dinner and supper, or between dinner or supper and bedtime; luncheon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner, most commonly about noontime.
- intransitive verb To take luncheon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A light
meal usually eaten aroundmidday , notably when not as main meal of the day. - noun cricket A
break inplay between thefirst andsecond sessions . - noun Minnesota, US Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
- verb To
eat lunch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take the midday meal
- noun a midday meal
- verb provide a midday meal for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have been a member for about 10 years now (wow, has it really been that long?), and this lunch is always one of the more enjoyable lunches.
2009 October 03 « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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I have been a member for about 10 years now (wow, has it really been that long?), and this lunch is always one of the more enjoyable lunches.
Trip report: Day 3 of Grace Hopper « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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One who loses his lunch is a chudder and an appointment that greedily downs fast food before the session is a taco valve.
Tattoo Machine (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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One who loses his lunch is a chudder and an appointment that greedily downs fast food before the session is a taco valve.
Archive 2009-08-01 ____Maggie 2009
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Watching a bear climb into our truck and steal our lunch is my best one.
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I have been a member for about 10 years now (wow, has it really been that long?), and this lunch is always one of the more enjoyable lunches.
2009 October « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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Watching a bear climb into our truck and steal our lunch is my best one.
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You can nag them for weeks to pack a lunch for school, or you can make it clear that packing a lunch is their job, and then let them forget once or twice.
The Social Science of Raising Happy Kids - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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We break for dinner what we call lunch around 11:30 or noon and come back at either 1pm or 1:30pm.
What is now my life 2008
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Strickland had contrived to claw together a sort of meal which he called lunch, and immediately after it was finished went out about his business.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
asativum commented on the word lunch
Eat the cats and snakes
And the rodents multiply.
Dinner is served. (Rats!)
-- For Vietnamese, The Year of the Rat Starts With Lunch, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 6, 2008 (or see the video).
February 7, 2008
asativum commented on the word lunch
Ooh! Just noticed the online article includes recipes as well...
February 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word lunch
This etymology is some ride.
January 27, 2024