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cinch

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5 lettersPronunciation /sɪntʃ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted cchinStarts with CEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps

Word origin

Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.

Used in a sentence

  • He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.
  • We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.
  • The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch.

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