CRUNCH

Crunch

The crunch is one of the most common abdominal exercises. It primarily works the rectus abdominis muscle and also works the obliques.

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crunch

Noun

  1. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
  2. A critical moment or event.
  3. A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.

Verb

  1. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
    When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
  2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
    Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
  3. To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
    That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
  4. To grind or press with violence and noise.
  5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.


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