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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



... Mrs. Athelstone, but a cinch. I know your husband was murdered there," and he pointed to the altar. "And you're not innocent, though how guilty morally I'm not ready to say. There may be something behind it all to change my ...
— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer
... this Dago—my word! That ain't victuals, that supper. That's just a' ingenious device for removing superfluous appetite. Next time I assimilate nutriment in this camp I'm sure going to take chloroform beforehand. Careful to draw your cinch tight on that pinto bronc' of yours. She always swells up same as a horned toad soon as you ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... not. She's got a taste of it and she'll thirst for more. And, for all that unsophistication, she is a clever kid. She'll get Height into a costume play before luncheon is over and that'll go a long way to cinch a hit for 'The Purple Slipper.' He's made a fad of not playing costume, and all the women in New York will flock to see him in velvet and lace. She bargained that fish Corbett out of four hundred dollars in the preliminary costume deal, ...
— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess
... has had much to do with this, sir. Seems to me as if 'twas the other one as was running it, with Joe Moore for deputy. The main thing, as I look at it, is to get a cinch on him. How much does ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... his fist. He wus purty white round the lips, but I reckon it wus only mad, fur thar wus n't nothin' weak about his voice, an' the way he lambasted thet thief wus a caution ter snakes. Say, I 've heerd some considerable ornate language in my time, but thet kid had a cinch on the dictionary all right, an' he read them two ducks the riot act good an' plenty. Thet long-legged Lane, he did n't have no sand, an' hung back and did n't say much, but the other feller tried every sneakin' trick a thief ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish


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