Definition of cinch
1 : a strap that holds a saddle on a horse
2 : a tight grip
3a : a thing done with ease Getting reelected would be a cinch for him.b : a certainty to happen it's a cinch he'll break the record
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Examples of cinch in a Sentence
This recipe is a cinch.
This dish is a cinch to make.
Recent Examples of cinch from the Web
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Luckily this tool eliminates the mess and makes perfect avocado slices a cinch.
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The GOP spent the entire Barack Obama presidency pretending as though passing major health care reforms would be a cinch, if only they were given the legislative space to turn their great ideas into law.
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Even more impressions: Touching up these colors is a cinch.
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If all your parts are working properly, pumping your own gasoline is a cinch.
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In the end, a prosecutor should never seek to indict a president absent a lead-pipe cinch of a case.
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Of course, that's the feat that most of Wall Street considers a cinch.
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But the basic unit of every Craig Green collection has remained the workwear jacket: robust and boxy, with capacious pockets and functional-looking cinches, usually in blue or black.
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Cloud Computing ran the mile and three sixteenths in a solid 1:55.98 on a track turned from muddy to fast late in the day, but is no cinch to run in the Belmont either.
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Origin and Etymology of cinch
Spanish cincha, from Latin cingula girdle, girth, from cingere — more at cincture
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Definition of cinch
Examples of cinch in a Sentence
The coat is cinched at the waist.
The rider cinched the saddle.
The candidate cinched the nomination by winning the major primary elections.
The home run cinched the victory.
Recent Examples of cinch from the Web
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A Volkswagen of America spokesperson couldn’t provide additional comment but did confirm that the California agreement has cinched up the timeline for VW’s electric vehicles.
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A noose is thrown around the scarf and cinched tight.
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The first lady wore all black, with long sleeves and flared pants, cinched with a wide, metallic gold belt, while the first daughter sported a black-and-white dress with splashes of magenta.
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Working with residents on the floor of a local nursing home cinched it for her.
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Although the suspect wore a green Miami Heat hoodie cinched tight around his face, his face was not concealed and is crystal clear in surveillance video recorded at the Weston bank.
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The dress cinched at the waist and contained a full skirt and an impressive train.
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One such sideshow was on New York's Coney Island, where guests paid 25 cents to see preemies dressed in oversized outfits cinched at the waist with a ribbon to emphasize their smallness.
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Employees at the Fashion Valley store called police at 10:32 a.m. to report the thefts by three black men, possibly in their 20s, with sweatshirt hoods cinched around their faces.
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Origin and Etymology of cinch
see 1cinch
CINCH Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of cinch for English Language Learners
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: something that is very easy to do
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—used to say that something will certainly happen or that someone will easily do something
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: a strap that holds a saddle on a horse
cinch
Definition of cinch for English Language Learners
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: to fasten (something, such as a belt or strap) tightly around someone or something
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: to make (something) certain to happen
CINCH Defined for Kids
Definition of cinch for Students
cinched
;cinching
: to fasten (as a belt or strap) tightly
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