Definition of lunch
1 : a usually light meal; especially : one taken in the middle of the day
2 : the food prepared for a lunch
out to lunch
slang : out of touch with reality
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Examples of lunch in a Sentence
I like to eat a healthy lunch every day.
We took a picnic lunch to the park.
They've brought their own lunches with them.
I had just a sandwich for lunch.
I bought her some lunch.
Recent Examples of lunch from the Web
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The atmosphere at a House Appropriations Committee lunch meeting on women’s health midday Wednesday was predictably charged.
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Participants can bring a sack lunch to eat before the lecture at 12:30 p.m. For more information, go to www.naperville-lib.org.
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Two-plus-course lunches start at $15, while three-plus-course dinners start at $29.
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Why have prominent arms that are of little use to doing the dirty work of acquiring lunch?
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The video has been watched more than 3,100 times by people who clearly have no interest in keeping down their lunch.
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The Spam Musubi – Spam on rice wrapped in seaweed – is also a popular snack and lunch food.
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The lunch agenda, not surprisingly, turned into a sales pitch, with Friedman offering a monologue on what Roy Cohn had already done for Trump.
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Kendall wore the outfit to lunch at L'avenue restaurant, a celebrity sighting hotspot that's also a favorite of Kim's, according to The Daily Mail.
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Origin and Etymology of lunch
probably short for luncheon
lunch
Definition of lunch
intransitive verb
: to eat lunch
transitive verb
: to treat to lunch
luncher
nounExamples of lunch in a Sentence
She often lunches in the park.
Recent Examples of lunch from the Web
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While in Washington in March, MBS lunched with Trump and Kushner in the State Dining Room.
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In 2012, a previous mayor drafted an ordinance fining tourists as much as $650 for dripping ice cream, dropping crumbs and lunching on the monuments.
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That day, shortly after lunching at Union Station, the Puerto Ricans walked to the U.S. Capitol, and made their way past security, though they were armed with pistols.
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Eat to the beat Bring a blanket, food and your children to Lunch on the Lawn, 12:30-1:15 p.m. June 14 at Burlington Park, 30 E. Chicago Ave.
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Lunches at the elementary schools are $2.05 and $2.35 in the secondary schools.
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An evacuation was lunched, said a tweet from the Harrisburg Fire Department.
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That may bode well for the advisers who are lunching and schmoozing their way through today’s distressed drought; the financial crisis followed just a few years later.
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This is the first of quarterly report Policy Matters will do as part of the Blue Collar Jobs Tracker project lunched by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.
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First Known Use of lunch
1811
LUNCH Defined for English Language Learners
lunch
playDefinition of lunch for English Language Learners
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: a light meal eaten in the middle of the day
lunch
Definition of lunch for English Language Learners
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: to eat lunch
LUNCH Defined for Kids
Definition of lunch for Students
1 : a light meal especially when eaten in the middle of the day It's time for lunch.
2 : food prepared for lunch You're eating my lunch!
Definition of lunch for Students
lunched
;lunching
: to eat lunch Let's lunch in the park.
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