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  • adjective Without lunch.

Etymologies

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lunch +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Briarcliff is one of several high-performing campuses that is confronting the lunchless, alongside other stress-reduction measures like starting school later or limiting the number of A.P. courses each student can take.

    Training A Future Workforce that Never Stops to Eat Jim Horn 2008

  • Briarcliff is one of several high-performing campuses that is confronting the lunchless, alongside other stress-reduction measures like starting school later or limiting the number of A.P. courses each student can take.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • And sitting lunchless in the hall of his hotel, with tourists passing every moment, Baedeker in hand, he was visited by black dejection.

    In Chancery 2004

  • For thirteen more lunchless hours, they zigzagged among mossy boulders and through sopping streamers of feverish heat, attended by squadrons of black flies that refused to quit them until a late afternoon downpour literally drowned the biting bugs in midair.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • For thirteen more lunchless hours, they zigzagged among mossy boulders and through sopping streamers of feverish heat, attended by squadrons of black flies that refused to quit them until a late afternoon downpour literally drowned the biting bugs in midair.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • To argue about winds with Davies was hopeless, and the upshot was that we started lunchless.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • No answering cheer appeared upon my lunchless features.

    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

  • It struck me as ludicrous that I, who had been one of them, should be lying there lunchless.

    Carry On Letters in War-Time Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • But it would have taken hundreds to satisfy us after our lunchless day, and there were other reasons.

    Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • It was an offering on the shrine of Fashion, and represented many lunchless days.

    Buttered Side Down 1911

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