What is "cruncher"

Usage examples of "cruncher".

Worked as a code cruncher for a credit bureau during the day, hacked at night.

Bendix lightware number cruncher was in the centre of the room, a steel-blue globe one metre in diameter, sitting on a pedestal at chest height.

He leaned back in the chair as his mind grappled with the enormity of what he had just seen, what the cruncher assured him was true.

Jerry Cruncher stood to one side and looked on in silence, sucking on his pipe.

A wet suck on his pipe told the world what Jerry Cruncher felt about that kind of efficiency.

All of them waited and listened in strained silence as Jerry Cruncher narrowed his eyes in thought, took the pipe from his mouth and exhaled a cloud of pungent smoke, then turned to face them.

They had been there no more than a few minutes when Jerry Cruncher showed up.

Shaking his head in solemn disapproval, Jerry Cruncher led the way to a manhole in the road, into the socket of which he inserted a shining tool with which, in a practiced movement, he flipped the heavy manhole lid aside.

Wires, cables and pipes lined the walls and ceiling in a maze that only a Jerry Cruncher could make head or tail of.

Jerry Cruncher hummed to himself tonelessly as he tapped various valves with a small ballpeen hammer, then carefully tightened the gasket retainer on one.

Jerry Cruncher said, carefully folding the slip and placing it securely in his wallet before they moved out again.

Shortly after this Jerry Cruncher halted and pointed up at a ladder that rose into the darkness above.

Jerry Cruncher eyed the Lieutenant with something very much like disgust and he groped his pipe from his pocket.

They had walked for no more than ten minutes down a lateral tunnel lined with frosted pipes before Jerry Cruncher stopped and sat down.

Jerry Cruncher sipped his tea placidly and chewed on a large chocolate biscuit.