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Cinched

Cinch \Cinch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Cinch"ing.]

  1. To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. [Western U. S.]

  2. To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. [Slang, U. S.]

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cinched

vb. (en-past of: cinch)

Usage examples of "cinched".

Angered beyond speech, she was cinched quite interestingly up in a couple of thousand dollars worth of English latex, North Beach leather, and a pair of vintage Smith & Wesson handcuffs that someone had paid to have lovingly buffed and redone in black chrome-the gardener evidently having headed for the hills when he heard Rydell parking Gunhead in the living room.

He'd traded his gray sweats for equally baggy black cotton pants, cinched at the ankle with elastic-sided black nylon gaiters above black leather workshoes.

The kind of gut that hangs over the top of a pair of jeans with a reasonably small waistband, swelling the front of a flannel shirt but cinched back in, below, with one of those big buckles.

Garric was dressed in red breeches, high boots, and a short blue runic cinched by his sword belt.

A girdle of golden silk cinched her waist, and the hem and throat of her garment were of gold lace.

Bound by a ring of black coral, his dark hair fell in a sideknot to below his shoulders, and his uniform tunic was cinched by a narrow hide belt.

The source of the voice was a dark-haired man as old as himself, dressed in a worn gray flight suit that was cinched at the waist by a broad red belt.

He was still meters from the valley floor when he arrested his descent, but his lightsaber fell prey to momentum and soared free of the cloth belt that cinched his robe.

While he cinched the saddle snugly in place, Dove snuffled over the thick, wooly pelt that lined his shearling coat.

Doug pulled out plastic restraints, wrapped them around Peyton's wrists, and cinched down hard enough to bite into flesh.

She looked waifish and lost in the big loose robe, cinched tight at the waist, a Ganymede with the soft tumbled pageboy hair.

Even her waist so tightly cinched warmed me, and the sight of her fair neck and sloping shoulders.

The pants were too large, and apparently cinched tight at the waist, and the shirt was Michael's shirt, an old sweat shirt.

A helmet made of plastic straps studded with metal contacts was cinched tightly on her shaved head.

He wore loose trousers of black silk tucked into polished half-boots, and a gold-trimmed jacket of the same material cinched by a tooled-leather belt that bore revolver and chryselephantine dagger.