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| 1. v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound. |  |
| When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery. | |
| 2. v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound. | |
| Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked. | |
| 3. v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators. | |
| That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries. | |
| 4. v. To grind or press with violence and noise. | |
| 5. v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise. | |
| 6. v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching. | |
| 7. v. (software development, slang) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project. | |
| 8. n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching. | |
| 9. n. A critical moment or event. | |
| 10. n. A problem that leads to a crisis. | |
| 11. n. (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor. | |
| 12. n. (uncommon, generally plural) A small piece created by crushing; pieces of material with a friable or crunchy texture. | |
| 13. n. (software development, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release. | |
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