Definitions for crunchkrʌntʃ

crunchkrʌntʃ(v.t.)

to chew with a sharp crushing noise.
to crush or grind noisily.
to condense:
Crunch the first page into one paragraph.
Category: Common Vocabulary
to squeeze financially.
Category: Business
to manipulate or process (numbers or data) extensively or in large amounts, esp. by computer.
Category: Computers
(v.i.)to chew with a crushing sound.
to proceed with a crushing noise:
cars crunching along the gravel road.
(n.)an act or sound of crunching.
a shortage or reduction:
the energy crunch.
Category: Common Vocabulary
financial pressure or hardship, esp. caused by a shortage or restriction:
a budget crunch.
Category: Common Vocabulary
a critical or difficult situation:
When the crunch comes, just do your best.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Usu., crunches. a form of sit-up done to strengthen and tone the abdominal muscles.
Category: Sport

1795–1805; b. craunch and crush

crunch(noun)
the sound of something crunching
"he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"
crunch(noun)
a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
"an end-of-the year crunch"; "a financial crunch"
crush, crunch, compaction(verb)
the act of crushing
crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle(verb)
make a crushing noise
"his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
crunch, cranch, craunch, grind(verb)
press or grind with a crushing noise
crunch, munch(verb)
chew noisily
"The children crunched the celery sticks"
grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute(verb)
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
"grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

crunch(verb)ʌntʃ
to bite noisily
The rabbit crunched his carrot.; to crunch on potato chips
crunchʌntʃ
to make a crunching noise
snow crunching under our feet
crunchʌntʃ
a situation in which resources are very limited
national parks feeling the budget crunch

crunch(Noun)
A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
crunch(Noun)
A critical moment or event.
crunch(Noun)
A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
crunch(Verb)
to crush something with a noisy crackling sound, especially with reference to food
When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
crunch(Verb)
to be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
crunch(Verb)
to calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations)
That meta data makes it much easier for the search engine software to quickly crunch the data for search queries.

Crunch(verb)
to chew with force and noise; to craunch
Crunch(verb)
to grind or press with violence and noise
Crunch(verb)
to emit a grinding or craunching noise
Crunch(verb)
to crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit

crunch
1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform. The pain may be due to the triviality's being embedded in a loop from 1 to 1,000,000,000. “FORTRAN programs do mostly number-crunching.” 2. vt. To reduce the size of a file by a complicated scheme that produces bit configurations completely unrelated to the original data, such as by a Huffman code. (The file ends up looking something like a paper document would if somebody crunched the paper into a wad.) Since such compression usually takes more computations than simpler methods such as run-length encoding, the term is doubly appropriate. (This meaning is usually used in the construction file crunch(ing) to distinguish it from number-crunching.) See compress. 3. n. The character #. Used at XEROX and CMU, among other places. See ASCII. 4. vt. To squeeze program source into a minimum-size representation that will still compile or execute. The term came into being specifically for a famous program on the BBC micro that crunched BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (it was a wholly interpretive BASIC, so the number of characters mattered). Obfuscated C Contest entries are often crunched; see the first example under that entry.