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Cinch   /sɪntʃ/   Listen
noun
Cinch  n.  
1.
A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. (West. U. S.)
2.
A tight grip. (Colloq.)


Cinch  n.  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 color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five.


verb
Cinch  v. t.  (past & past part. cinched; pres. part. cinching)  
1.
To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. (Western U. S.)
2.
To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. (Slang, U. S.)


Cinch  v. t.  In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.


Cinch  v. i.  To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; often with up. (Western U. S.)





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"Cinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... a cinch," said Hal—"being the sheriff, and having the naming of so many deputies as they ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... Amos Totten set up the cinch of his sword-belt by a couple of holes and began another tour of inspection of the State House. He considered that the parlous situation in state affairs demanded full dress. During the evening he had been going on ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... out just how things stand between them. The old lady doesn't know anything, that's a cinch. If she really knew she would have let it out to me. I'll never get a better chance to pump her than I had today. She doesn't know. You can see she hopes her son will get her. That's as plain as the nose on your face. But she doesn't ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... was defending a man charged by his wife with desertion. For a time it looked as tho it were a cinch for the prosecution, but at the psychological moment the attorney called the defendant to the stand. "Take off that bandage," he cried, and the man did it, exposing a black eye. "Your honor," said the attorney, "our defense is that this man is not a ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... proves my argyment about how simple it is to make good here? From the way he's dressed—them, now, diamonds and so forth—he's probably a big feller in his line. Makin' plenty of money and looked on as a success by the ig'rant. Yet he lets a big order get away from him when it was practically a cinch ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer


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