Clinchname

• 1

  A surname.

• 2

  A river in Virginia and Tennessee, United States, a tributary of the Tennessee River, named after an 18th century explorer.

clinchverb/klɪnt͡ʃ/

• 1

  To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.

• 2

  To clasp; to interlock.

  • “Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah—‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’”
• 3

  To fasten securely or permanently.

• 4

  To make certain; to finalize.

  • I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
  • Vincent Kompany was sent off after conceding a penalty that was converted by Stephen Hunt to give Wolves hope. But Adam Johnson's curling shot in stoppage time clinched the points.
• 5

  To hold firmly; to clench

• 6

  To set closely together; to close tightly.

  • to clinch the teeth or the fist
  • [T]ry if the heads of the nails [of horseshoes] be fast, and whether they be well clinched; if not, send presently for a smith; always stand by while the smith is employed.
• 7

  To hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to avoid being hit while resting momentarily

• 8

  To secure a spot (e.g., at the divisional championship) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.

  • It put the U.S. on the brink of clinching a spot in the quarterfinals.

clinchnoun/klɪnt͡ʃ/

• 1

  Any of several fastenings.

• 2

  The act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.

• 3

  The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.

  • to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
  • to secure anything by a clinch
• 4

  obsoleteA pun.

• 5

  nauticaltransportA hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

• 6

  A passionate embrace.

  • More likely, he was letting her know that his visit this morning was not going to end in a clinch—or something steamier. It was going to be about sitting at a table, drinking coffee and talking.
  • So, then, to the health secretary’s “steamy clinch” with Gina Coladangelo, the lobbyist and long-term friend he took on as an aide last year […]
• 7

  governmenthobbieslifestyleThe act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.

• 8

  archaicslangA prison sentence.

  • COOMBE: He got the clinch only last week — eighteen months. You see it's no good having anybody here as ain't got a^([sic]) unblemished character. We don't want to have the bluebottles come sniffing round here, do we?