Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cinch

/sɪntʃ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: cinch
IPA: /sɪntʃ/

12

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

noun

Something that is very easy to do.

Informal

noun

Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.

Informal

noun

Informal

verb

To bring to certain conclusion.

verb

To tighten down.

noun

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 colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.

verb

In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.

Example Sentences

"He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question."
"We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that."
"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."
"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."
"As a matter of fact, from the look of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again."
"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."

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.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: cencha, cincta, cincha, cingula, cingulum, cinco

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /sɪntʃ/
British English: /sɪntʃ/

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

cinches (plural) cinches (present, singular) cinching (participle, present) cinched (participle, past) cinched (past)

Derived Forms

cinchable cincher cinchy uncinch

Phrases

Hungarian cinch lead-pipe cinch

Synonyms

piece of cake breeze sure thing double Pedro high five picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover

Rhymes With

inch lynch pinch finch clinch winch flinch grinch synch hinch kinch minch

Questions

How do you pronounce cinch?: The recorded pronunciation is /sɪntʃ/.
What does cinch mean?: A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
Where does cinch come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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