clinch

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English

Etymology

16th-century alteration of clench.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɪnt͡ʃ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪntʃ

Verb

clinch (third-person singular simple present clinches, present participle clinching, simple past and past participle clinched)

  1. To clasp; to interlock. [from 1560s]
  2. To make certain; to finalize. [from 1716]
    I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
    • 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      Vincent Kompany was sent off after conceding a penalty that was converted by Stephen Hunt to give Wolves hope. But Adam Johnson's curling shot in stoppage time clinched the points.
  3. To fasten securely or permanently.
    Synonyms: attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
  4. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed. [17th century]
  5. To embrace passionately.
  6. To hold firmly; to clench.
    Synonyms: clasp, grasp, grip; see also Thesaurus:grasp
  7. To set closely together; to close tightly.
    to clinch the teeth or the fist

Translations

Noun

clinch (plural clinches)

(Sense 6) One wrestler is trying to get the back.
  1. Any of several fastenings.
  2. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
    Synonyms: grip, grasp
    to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
    to secure anything by a clinch
  3. (obsolete) A pun.
  4. (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
  5. A passionate embrace.
    • 2015, Judith Arnold, Moondance:
      More likely, he was letting her know that his visit this morning was not going to end in a clinch—or something steamier. It was going to be about sitting at a table, drinking coffee and talking.
    • 2021 June 25, Marina Hyde, “Matt Hancock, the one-time sex cop now busted for a dodgy clinch”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      So, then, to the health secretary’s “steamy clinch” with Gina Coladangelo, the lobbyist and long-term friend he took on as an aide last year […]
  6. (wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.

Descendants

  • → Czech: klinč
  • → German: Clinch
  • → French: clinch
  • → Portuguese: clinche
  • → Russian: клинч (klinč)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: klȉnč
  • → Polish: klincz
  • → Swedish: klinch

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Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clinch.

Pronunciation

Noun

clinch m (plural clinchs)

  1. clinch
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