clinch
pronunciation
How to pronounce clinch in British English:
UK [klɪntʃ]
How to pronounce clinch in American English:
US [klɪntʃ]
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- Noun:
- (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
- a small slip noose made with seizing
- the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
- a tight or amorous embrace
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- Verb:
- secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts
- hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches
- hold in a tight grasp
- embrace amorously
- flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)
- settle conclusively
Word Origin
- clinch (v.)
- 1560s, "clasp, interlock," especially with a bent nail, variant of clench. The sense of "settle decisively" is first recorded 1716, from the notion of "clinching" the point of a nail to keep it fast. Boxing sense is from 1860. Related: Clinched; clinching.
- clinch (n.)
- 1620s, "method of fastening," from clinch (v.). Meaning "a fastening by bent nail" is from 1650s. In pugilism, from 1875.
Example
- 1. This is involved clinch a deal affirmatory problem of the forehead .
- 2. The salesman was in columbia trying to clinch a deal for his employer .
- 3. The fighters were in a clinch .
- 4. Royal dutch shell expected to clinch a deal this month to get natural gas from oil extracted in basra province .
- 5. He is now leading qatar 's drive to invest in pakistan and east africa to clinch corporate farm investment deals in order to secure food supplies as global food inflation bites .