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cinch
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What does cinch mean?
noun
- A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
- (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
- (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
More meanings (6)
noun
- (informal) A firm hold.
- A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
- An RCA connector.
verb
- To bring to certain conclusion.
- To tighten down.
- In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
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Jo loosed the cinch, put Lightfoot out of pain, and carried back the saddle to the camp.
A frying-pan, some salt pork, and a hatchet, made up a light pack, which, with the bedding, I fastened across the stock saddle by means of a rope and a spare packing cinch.
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Cold with its creeping terror, cold with its sudden clinch; Cold so utter you wonder if 'twill ever again be warm; Clancy grinned as he shuddered, "Surely it isn't a cinch Being wet-nurse to a looney in the teeth of an arctic storm."
She thought intently and added, “And wouldn’t know it if I did. It would just be my luck. I’ve had the rarest thing on earth in reach this many a day and only had the wit to cinch it just as it was going. I’ll bet I don’t let anything else escape me.”