lunch

[ luhnch ]
/ lʌntʃ /
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noun

a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
any light meal or snack.
a restaurant or lunchroom: Let's eat at the dairy lunch.

verb (used without object)

to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.

verb (used with object)

to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.

Idioms for lunch

    out to lunch, Slang. not paying attention or tending to business; negligent: You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.

Origin of lunch

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon

OTHER WORDS FROM lunch

lunch·er, noun lunch·less, adjective pre·lunch, adjective, noun

Words nearby lunch

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Words related to out to lunch

bored, distracted, careless, distraught, oblivious, indifferent, apathetic, inefficient, incapable, inadequate, inept, unskilled, ineffectual, useless, unqualified, helpless, amateurish, inexperienced, screwball, wacky

British Dictionary definitions for out to lunch

lunch
/ (lʌntʃ) /

noun

a meal eaten during the middle of the day
Caribbean (among older people) mid-afternoon tea

verb

(intr) to eat lunch
(tr) to provide or buy lunch for

Derived forms of lunch

luncher, noun

Word Origin for lunch

C16: probably short form of luncheon

Idioms and Phrases with out to lunch (1 of 2)

out to lunch

Not in touch with the real world, crazy; also, inattentive. For example, If he believes that story, he's really out to lunch, or Anne hasn't heard a word you said—she's out to lunch. This expression transfers a temporary physical absence for the purpose of eating to a temporary or permanent mental absence. [Slang; mid-1900s]

Idioms and Phrases with out to lunch (2 of 2)

lunch

see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).