lunch
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
any light meal or snack.
a restaurant or lunchroom: Let's eat at the dairy lunch.
to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.
to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.
Idioms about lunch
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.
Origin of lunch
1Other words from lunch
- luncher, noun
- lunchless, adjective
- pre·lunch, adjective, noun
Words Nearby lunch
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How to use lunch in a sentence
Yu acknowledged that there is a risk of a “backlog” in the kitchen if everyone wants their lunch at the same time, but he said KitchenMate tries to alleviate this issue by allowing people to pre-order their meals in the app.
The Rotisserie League was named after the restaurant where the founders often ate lunch.
The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | August 20, 2020 | FreakonomicsIncarcerated military veterans enter the dining hall for lunch at the Cybulski Rehabilitation Center in Enfield, Connecticut.
It’s kind of folklore and the sort of thing you learn over a lunch table discussion around the common room.
New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles | Kevin Hartnett | June 25, 2020 | Quanta MagazineA 63-year-old woman and her family walked into a crowded restaurant for lunch, after returning from Wuhan the day before.
COVID-19 case clusters offer lessons and warnings for reopening | Helen Thompson | June 18, 2020 | Science News
According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTwenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.
On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI'm to be at his Universal bungalow at twelve-thirty for lunch, to meet him for the first time, going to see a man about a job.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonI often recall the farewell lunch we had together at the Restaurant de Paris, in the Escolta.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanHe paid for the lunch, and tipped the waiters so liberally that they all hoped he would come again often.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonI'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.
Uncanny Tales | VariousAt lunch he was the greatest possible fun, bubbling over with jokes and witty sallies.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for lunch
/ (lʌntʃ) /
a meal eaten during the middle of the day
Caribbean (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
(intr) to eat lunch
(tr) to provide or buy lunch for
Origin of lunch
1Derived forms of lunch
- luncher, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with lunch
see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).
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