lunch

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Then I found that in a certain cafeteria which I frequent the price you pay for your lunch is always just one cent less than that punched on the check.

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  1. noun A meal eaten at midday.
  2. noun The food provided for a midday meal.
  3. intransitive verb To eat a midday meal.

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  • Seeing it made me realize how inadequate a lunch was the chocolate bar that I'd eaten on the drive to Point Reyes. —  Muller, Marcia - [11] Trophies and Dead Things.htm
  • We had ordered in lunch from the Thai restaurant on the corner and the white cardboard containers had grown cold and developed leaks while I waited for Mercer to come back from Maxine's office, where he was making the calls, with the information we needed. —  Death Dance - Fairstein
  • Except that there was wine, she found that the lunch was as Phyllis had stated and what she herself had expected. —  Winking at the Brim - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 48: 1974
  • On this Saturday, however, Moers did no more than lower the rough linen blind over the open window, and less than half an hour after his lunch was again poring over his glass plates and his bits of charred paper, working with the regularity of a metronome. —  Maigret Stonewalled—Georges Simenon - 03
  • Only trouble - the lunch was the previous week, so the pitch missed its target. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
 

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  1. Short for luncheon.

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  1. A variant of lump, as bunch of bump and hunch of hump. In def. 2 lunch is commonly regarded as an abbreviation of luncheon, which is therefore by some preferred as the more correct or “elegant” form; but lunch, 2, is derivable as well from lunch, 1, directly; cf. piece in the sense of ‘a slight repast.’ See luncheon.
  2. from lunch, n.
 

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