Noun: cinch
| Singular | cinch |
| Plural | cinches |
Sample Sentences
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He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question. [1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand:]
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We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that. [1913, Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns:]
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The job was a snap. I travelled the country averaging a thousand miles a week and, since the previous incumbent had been a lazy bugger, managed to treble the business. It was a cinch. [2003, Clive Selwood, All the Moves (but None of the Licks), page 33:]
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Suddenly, being a mom was everything it was advertised to be. Zelly settled into being such a happy, well-behaved infant that she became what Shannon calls a “decoy baby”—the kind that tricks other young couples into thinking that having kids is a cinch. [2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 2, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 55:]
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As a matter of fact, from the look of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again. [1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:]
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You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia. [1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,:]
Nouns inflected like cinch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan cencha, from Latin cincta, or from Spanish cincha (“a belt or girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle. See: Latin Nouns '
cincta', Spanish Nouns '
cincha', Latin Nouns '
cingulum'.