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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



... "I'm on a loose end," he communed. "Next time I waft myself to Europe on a steamer I'll bring my mother. It would be a bully fine notion to cable for her right away. I want someone to take care of me. It looks as if I had a cinch on running this hotel gratis. What in thunder ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
... a fool, Smith," he laughed. "What's the matter with you? It's a cinch. Go back and forget it." He shot out of the door ...
— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train
... open-and-shut cinch that the answer to the conundrum lies in that silly old black bunch of feathers," declared the other, conviction in his voice. "I looked up all about ravens in our big 'cyclopaedia as soon as I got downstairs this morning; and the more I read, the stronger my mind got that ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... the snow was gone Mlle. Zaretti had discarded the derrick-arm. Urging Calico to his best speed she would grasp the cinch handles and with one light bound land on his well-resined back. Then, as he circled around in an even, rythmical lope, she would jump the banners and dive through the hoops. It was more or less fun for ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford
... around. You get it, don't you? Your friend, in order to prove that the idea of the Play is right, goes out for a job, and proves that he cannot demand Laber and get it." He stopped and spoke with excitement: "Is he a real sport? Would he stand being arested? Because that would cinch it." ...
— Bab: A Sub-Deb • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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