Crossword clues for lunch
lunch
- Burroughs' was naked
- Midday ritual
- It may be bagged and eaten
- Word before or after box
- Time to hit the salad bar
- Three-martini meal, perhaps
- Soup and a sandwich, sometimes
- Something to do?
- Something to do with a business associate?
- Something to do around midday?
- Noon meal, for many
- Noon meal
- Noon break
- Midday interlude
- Meal in a brown bag
- John Popper used have a very large one
- It might come in a box
- It might be working
- Event at which you may pick sides?
- Daily meal
- Content of some boxes or bags
- Break in the workday
- Break after recess, perhaps
- Afternoon date, maybe
- "Out to ___"
- Noon event
- Midday break
- Meal in a box
- Pail contents, perhaps
- Something for friends to "do"
- A midday meal
- Type of break
- Honey, for Pooh
- Brown-bag contents
- Kind of break
- Midday event
- Midday meal
- Meal project one's lacking
- Meal for Parisian one inside 19 church
- Elaine Stritch's Ladies Who ___
- One leaves to throw up a meal
- Diner offering
- Day break?
- Counter offer?
- School period
- One of a daily trio
- Type of counter
- Something to do at an eatery
- Meal to "do"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lunch
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dinner/lunch invitation
▪ Fred's wife has accepted the dinner invitation.
a dinner/lunch reservation
▪ I'd forgotten to make a dinner reservation.
a dinner/lunch/breakfast menu
▪ There is an extensive dinner menu, and seafood is a speciality.
a lunch break
▪ What time’s your lunch break?
a sandwich/lunch box
▪ Most of the kids bring lunch boxes to school.
alfresco lunch/supper etc
box lunch
buffet breakfast/lunch/supper
▪ The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.
Christmas dinner/lunch (=a special meal on Christmas Day)
▪ All the family come to our house for Christmas dinner.
come to dinner/lunch
▪ What day are your folks coming to dinner?
cook breakfast/lunch/dinner
▪ Kate was in the kitchen cooking dinner.
eat breakfast/lunch/dinner etc
▪ What time do you usually eat lunch?
have lunch/a meal etc
▪ I usually have breakfast at about seven o'clock.
lunch break
lunch counter
lunch hour
▪ I did the shopping during my lunch hour.
packed lunch
ploughman's lunch
school meals/lunches (also school dinners British English)
▪ We provide good-quality school meals.
serve breakfast/lunch/dinner
▪ Breakfast is served until 9 am.
set lunch/dinner/menu
▪ The hotel does a very good set menu.
stay to dinner/stay for lunch etc
▪ Why don’t you stay for supper?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
▪ If these Politicians have their way, there may literally be no free lunch for millions of children!
▪ There is no free lunch, there is no donation without strings.
▪ Foaming schooners, free lunch, fish fry Fridays, poker in the back room, arguments settled in the alley.
▪ There's no such thing as a free lunch.
▪ More than 75 percent of students under the age of eighteen qualify for free school lunches.
▪ Contemporary cosmology even suggests that the whole universe might have appeared out of the quantum vacuum: the ultimate free lunch.
▪ There is no free lunch for any segment of society.
hot
▪ It's fifty years since they delivered their first hot lunch.
▪ And if the microwave goes down, the whole production crew loses out on a hot lunch as well.
▪ Excellent daily menu of hot and cold lunch dishes.
light
▪ No relaxing by the pool or light lunch over Football Focus for my lads.
▪ They were seated, as was their custom, in the summer-house, where they had just finished a light lunch.
▪ There is a smart àlacarte restaurant for dinner and light lunches are served in the bar.
▪ At the 52-storey building, the 1,000 staff are served light lunches and snacks by manager Tony Gatland and his staff.
▪ Vegetarian dishes and other special diets are no problem for Judy and snacks and light lunches will be provided on request.
▪ Why not fix to have a light lunch here one day if ever in Edinburgh.
▪ Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace.
▪ Dishy meals Whether you want inspiration for a light lunch or an impressive supper, we can provide it.
long
▪ Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury, a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch.
▪ They held impressive but obscure titles, occupied spacious and comfortable offices, and indulged in frequent travel and long lunches.
▪ Though cynics may say something else, long lunches are part of the job description for a working hack.
▪ They took long lunches and went to barbershops, beauty parlors, bathhouses, and tearooms during working hours.
▪ It was a long lunch in the presence of our new-found friend, the Rugby World Cup.
packed
▪ A wholesome breakfast is served and dinner and packed lunches are provided on request.
▪ Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform.
▪ Waterproofs, wellingtons or other strong footwear and a packed lunch.
▪ We collected our packed lunch from the manageress, and, as the sun again was shining, set out for Helvellyn.
▪ She had also prepared a good packed lunch.
▪ Vegetarian meals can be provided, and packed lunches are available on request.
▪ They had eaten a packed lunch prepared by Evelyn.
▪ I'd just as soon make do with a packed lunch.
■ NOUN
box
▪ I can remember that I wanted a care bears lunch box.
▪ When he finishes his supper, the boy tucks the lunch box back into a shopping bag and closes his eyes.
▪ A lunch box is opened, and a cluster of plastic and aluminium jewels gleam from inside.
▪ Leave a Surprise Leave behind a special note to be put into a lunch box or under a pillow.
▪ I picked up my lunch box and I walked to school.
▪ Forty-four little hands gather up coats and lunch boxes and forty-four little feet head down the hall to go home.
▪ I could now see that Richie was providing the sandwiches from the plastic lunch box, perched on his lap.
▪ Their children's lunch boxes are nutritionally correct.
break
▪ More volunteers would also allow the workers simple pleasures like a lunch break without feeling guilty.
▪ Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki abruptly called for an early lunch break.
▪ I rang Joy and Alan, who came immediately and stayed, apart from a quick lunch break, all day.
▪ Oh, they had a little fun trapping regents going to the bathroom during the lunch break.
▪ During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints.
▪ I timed it so I caught Stu on his lunch break.
▪ He was entitled to a fifteen-minute mid-morning break, a forty-five-minute lunch break and another fifteen-minute break around mid-afternoon.
▪ After all, the 27-year-old farm worker fully intended to return to work when his 30-minute lunch break was over.
buffet
▪ Journey north through the fertile Kikuyu heartland to Nyeri where a buffet lunch will be served at the Outspan Hotel.
▪ The cold buffet lunch, of high standard, included a large cake in the shape and colours of Searcher.
▪ Beer garden. 60/ -, 70/ -, 80/ - cask conditioned ales. Buffet lunches.
▪ A buffet lunch of delicious contributions by the Class added to the enjoyable sunny June afternoon.
▪ The cost of £20 includes a buffet lunch.
▪ After the tour we are ushered into the board-room where a magnificent buffet lunch is laid out.
▪ After a healthy buffet lunch, attention will shift to skincare, style and make-up.
business
▪ However, business lunches may crop up from time to time - and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants.
▪ He was introduced to an overseas banker at a business lunch and presented his transferable skills to the banker.
▪ The business lunch is certainly not easy unless carefully planned first and lighting and positioning chosen.
▪ May I also pass on my thanks to your master for providing such a great venue for my business lunches.
▪ Prove to yourself how enjoyable mineral water is during business lunches.
hour
▪ I sat through lunch hour staring at a poster of a crab louse magnified to monstrous proportions.
▪ So, by the late 1980s, the services resembled the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant during a busy lunch hour.
▪ It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour.
▪ Trade stands and demonstrations will be open during the lunch hour.
▪ He had roamed Queenstown during his lunch hour at the beginning of the week before he could find a roaster for sale.
▪ The shop was closed for the lunch hour.
picnic
▪ Hard-boiled eggs are sneaked from breakfast buffets to be scoffed for picnic lunches.
▪ This picnic lunch is usually eaten in random bites on the seafloor.
▪ Enjoy the scenic drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley, with a picnic lunch enroute.
▪ The picnic lunch which had been eaten immediately on arrival had rendered some of the elders somnolent.
▪ Here you can buy everything for a picnic lunch.
▪ For want of a better location, we ate our picnic lunch in the cemetery with superb views of the north coast.
power
▪ Whether it's a power lunch or a romantic dinner, a meal at Cicada always feels like a special occasion.
school
▪ Tea was a plate of doorsteps cut by Mrs Garfitt the housekeeper at one-thirty, as soon as school lunch was over.
▪ Kayla had been a shy girl, who prayed before eating school lunch.
▪ After a while my hands smelled like an old-time Catholic school lunch room on a hot Friday.
▪ Bon Appetit software for government school lunch programs.
▪ More than 75 percent of students under the age of eighteen qualify for free school lunches.
▪ He also ordered the government to buy more school lunch beef to bolster cattle prices, now plummeting because of a drought.
▪ A Hartford school lunch costs 90 cents for elementary students, $ 1. 15 at middle and high schools.
time
▪ The Carvery every lunch time serves prime roast sirloin.
▪ She ran home sobbing at lunch time.
▪ We stopped at lunch time and had a traditional meal with our driver who then took us back on our way.
▪ Snacks are served by the pool at lunch time.
▪ Each location has a counter service restaurant at lunch time, along with a coffee and snack bar open all day.
▪ The main meal of the day may be eaten at lunch time or in the evening, according to your normal habit.
▪ She wasn't expected at the Refuge till lunch time.
▪ Deck-chairs, sun-loungers and umbrellas are provided and a pool bar serves snacks at lunch time.
■ VERB
bring
▪ Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform.
▪ So they were ordered not to leave the grounds but to bring lunch with them.
▪ Vicky would bring lunch, and Robby supper.
▪ Mme Guérigny brought the Sunday lunch ritual to a close as soon as she had buried M. Guérigny.
▪ Say, I brought you guys some lunch.
▪ The walk is expected to last all day so bring a packed lunch.
▪ When the four-star chef came to visit, he brought lunch.
buy
▪ I wouldn't let me buy me lunch, I said, and I meant it.
▪ He also ordered the government to buy more school lunch beef to bolster cattle prices, now plummeting because of a drought.
cook
▪ Middle-class families get their investment back in two to three years if they cook half their lunch every day in the cooker.
▪ When I rose at five Peter had already finished cooking both breakfast and lunch.
▪ She was sweeping out the yard while Bella cooked the lunch and sang to the baby.
▪ I usually cooked Sunday lunch after we got back from church.
▪ She had cooked the lunch in it.
▪ And I cooked this superb lunch.
▪ She was worried because she knew that the Copleys were waiting for her to cook lunch.
▪ As for Christmas Day itself, don't panic if you're cooking a big turkey lunch for the very first time.
eat
▪ Often an informal group will eat lunch near a machine or other work station, even though a canteen is available.
▪ After we eat a hearty lunch I begin my afternoon the normal way with my virgin pina colada.
▪ Members of the club joined in a wide range of activities and ate a healthy lunch at the Southlands Centre, Middlesbrough.
▪ And, the survey shows, men are more likely than women to eat lunch at a sit-down restaurant.
▪ I ate no lunch but drank solidly.
▪ People are eating bagels for lunch, dinner and snacks in between.
▪ Let her eat lunch and then give her a mild tranquilliser.
▪ People were eating lunch, and I saw the same faces and the same expressions I had seen the day before.
enjoy
▪ Kate had enjoyed her late lunch with Patrick Kelly very much.
▪ An experienced mountain climber, Gray rested, enjoying lunch and the view.
▪ He was quite enjoying his lunch after all.
▪ A visit to the fascinating museum can be enjoyed either before lunch or after the tour at the convenience of the visitor.
▪ Here in sophisticated surroundings you can wine, dine and dance, or simply enjoy a pleasant lunch or good dinner.
▪ Return with nonchalant air woman enjoying deliberately solitary lunch, but bark shin on chair.
▪ It was there Fergie recommended the school to her - where yesterday Eugenie and Zenouska enjoyed lunch of spaghetti and sponge cake.
invite
▪ I've invited them aboard for lunch.
▪ Sonya invited me to have lunch with her and Mendl.
▪ Having explained carefully to Willis what he was about to do, Richard invited Pinkie out to lunch.
▪ She had invited several friends to lunch the next day, and she had given no thought to what to cook.
▪ Hubert, who was the boy's housemaster, summoned a mechanic and invited Barbara to lunch.
▪ Last weekend I was invited out to Sunday lunch by the young teacher who is involved in organizing this course.
meet
▪ One Sunday that August, he left his farm near the Oxford ring road to meet a friend for lunch.
▪ So instead of making an appearance, he telephoned Mortara, who suggested they meet for lunch at the South Street Seaport.
▪ We met at lunch, once, and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls.
▪ Can I meet you guys for lunch today?
▪ Luckily, Domino Mei-Ling did not come into the office to meet Damian for lunch that week.
▪ She and Laura continued to keep up their friendship through frequent telephone calls and meeting for lunch at least once a month.
▪ After the board meeting, they drove fifty miles south of Auckland to meet Forster for lunch.
▪ They met for lunch in Washington Park, smoked dope with her newspaper friends, were invited together to late night parties.
pack
▪ There was also a lecture Theatre for people who had packed lunches.
▪ Instead of having parents pack lunches, he decided the kids should get free, hot meals.
▪ We had persuaded our landladies to give us packed lunches in place of the statutory second meal.
▪ I am grateful not to have to pack lunches.
serve
▪ Now, fingers on the buzzers and no conferring: what did the caterers serve for lunch?
▪ What do they serve here for lunch?
▪ Across the road from the White Horse Inn - a family run pub serving lunches and evening meals.
▪ I washed dishes, set tables, and served breakfast, lunch, and supper from eleven at night until dawn.
▪ Fifty miles north, Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at.
▪ It also serves lunch and dinner, but breakfast has become the most popular meal, says owner Gloria Salum.
▪ Choice of ALaCarte Restaurant or the Pavilion Lounge which serves light lunches and traditional beers.
▪ Deck-chairs, sun-loungers and umbrellas are provided and a pool bar serves snacks at lunch time.
sit
▪ The two girls sat together at lunch, at the far end of the table.
▪ They sat at the lunch counter in Shraders Pharmacy on the courthouse square.
▪ For secondly he sits through many lunches, discussing life and love and never mentioning football.
▪ I sat through lunch hour staring at a poster of a crab louse magnified to monstrous proportions.
▪ Then they all drew pictures till lunch. 12.55: I sat down and had lunch with the kids.
stop
▪ We stopped at lunch time and had a traditional meal with our driver who then took us back on our way.
▪ It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour.
▪ We stopped for lunch, to change the horses.
▪ The man recited all the way and they were nearly late, with no time to stop for lunch.
▪ Without my being in any position to know their movements, they stop off for lunch half-way through their trip.
▪ After a few more games we stopped for lunch and went over the morning's action.
▪ After stopping for lunch, they realised that one of their tyres had been let down.
take
▪ I wanted to take Ladislav to lunch, and he suggested a restaurant near Wenceslas Square.
▪ Sandy has learned to compress her hours by not taking lunch and taking work home if she has to.
▪ You can take her out for lunch as well.
▪ You take forty-five minutes for lunch.
▪ Notice of the application for the injunction had been given at about 11 a.m. and the hearing took place after lunch.
▪ This much done, he returned aboard and took lunch.
▪ They invariably took a late lunch to Mutton Cove and slept and swam the afternoon away.
▪ He now takes bites from his lunch between smokes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do lunch/do a movie etc
lunch/dinner hour
▪ During her lunch hour she shopped, deliberately avoiding the part of town in which Giles's office was situated.
▪ Friday: the long lunch hour at the York.
▪ I sat through lunch hour staring at a poster of a crab louse magnified to monstrous proportions.
▪ It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour.
▪ So, by the late 1980s, the services resembled the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant during a busy lunch hour.
▪ Walk for fifteen minutes each lunch hour.
power breakfast/lunch etc
▪ The perfect hit, the literary equivalent to a high-octane power lunch.
▪ Whether it's a power lunch or a romantic dinner, a meal at Cicada always feels like a special occasion.
there's no free lunch
▪ As a country, we must face the fact that there is no free lunch for Social Security recipients.
working breakfast/lunch/dinner
▪ Gannon explained recently during a working lunch downtown.
▪ He has working lunches with his team to discuss and develop their approach to managing people for profit.
▪ The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose's office.
▪ The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties.
▪ You might then have a working dinner with a business speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At work we are allowed one hour for lunch.
▪ See you after lunch.
▪ Shall we have lunch before we go out?
▪ We always have roast beef for Sunday lunch.
▪ We had an early lunch and spent the afternoon shopping.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After lunch he fared better returning a 76, taking only 35 shots on the inward nine.
▪ At a lunch in his honour, friends and former rivals gathered to pay him tribute.
▪ Everybody else in the village was presumably either still eating lunch or else dozing.
▪ The lunch, at which numbers will be limited, will be open to all members and will feature an after-lunch speaker.
▪ The muscle work comes after breakfast, then again after lunch and a nap.
▪ The next week, we had a full house at the lunch.
▪ They were each allowed a glass of wine at lunch, and from my experience, smoking was compulsory.
II.verbPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lunch/dinner hour
▪ During her lunch hour she shopped, deliberately avoiding the part of town in which Giles's office was situated.
▪ Friday: the long lunch hour at the York.
▪ I sat through lunch hour staring at a poster of a crab louse magnified to monstrous proportions.
▪ It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour.
▪ So, by the late 1980s, the services resembled the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant during a busy lunch hour.
▪ Walk for fifteen minutes each lunch hour.
power breakfast/lunch etc
▪ The perfect hit, the literary equivalent to a high-octane power lunch.
▪ Whether it's a power lunch or a romantic dinner, a meal at Cicada always feels like a special occasion.
there's no free lunch
▪ As a country, we must face the fact that there is no free lunch for Social Security recipients.
working breakfast/lunch/dinner
▪ Gannon explained recently during a working lunch downtown.
▪ He has working lunches with his team to discuss and develop their approach to managing people for profit.
▪ The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose's office.
▪ The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties.
▪ You might then have a working dinner with a business speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had lunched with the Wellands, hoping afterward to carry off May for a walk iii the Park.
▪ Shelley promises to lunch with them once she has got her things from the car.
▪ We often lunched together after her weekly consultation.
▪ You ask him to lunch at a posh restaurant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunch
Lunch \Lunch\ (l[u^]nch), n. [Of uncertain etymol. Cf. Prov. Eng. nunc a lump.] A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner, most commonly about noontime.
Lunch
Lunch \Lunch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lunching.]
To take luncheon.
--Smart.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lunch
"mid-day repast," 1786, shortened form of luncheon (q.v.). The verb meaning "to take to lunch" (said to be from the noun) also is attested from 1786:\n\nPRATTLE. I always to be ſure, makes a point to keep up the dignity of the family I lives in. Wou'd you take a more ſolid refreſhment?
--Have you lunch'd, Mr. Bribe?\n
\nBRIBE. Lunch'd O dear! Permit me, my dear Mrs. Prattle, to refreſh my sponge, upon the honey dew that clings to your raviſhing pouters. O! Mrs. Prattle, this ſhall be my lunch. (kiſſes) \n
\n
["The Mode," in William Davies' "Plays Written for a Private Theatre," London, 1786]
\nBut as late as 1817 the only definition of lunch in Webster's is "a large piece of food." OED says in 1820s the word "was regarded either as a vulgarism, or as a fashionable affectation." Related: Lunched; lunching. Lunch money is attested from 1868; lunch-time (n.) is from 1821; lunch hour is from 1840. Slang phrase out to lunch "insane, stupid, clueless" first recorded 1955, on notion of being "not there." Old English had nonmete "afternoon meal," literally "noon-meat."Wiktionary
lunch
n. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day. vb. To eat lunch.
WordNet
lunch
v. take the midday meal; "At what time are you lunching?"
provide a midday meal for; "She lunched us well"
Wikipedia
Lunch
Lunch, the abbreviation for luncheon, is a light meal typically eaten at midday. The origin of the words lunch and luncheon relate to a small snack originally eaten at any time of the day or night. During the 20th century the meaning gradually narrowed to a small or mid-sized meal eaten at midday. Lunch is commonly the second meal of the day after breakfast. The meal varies in size depending on the culture, and significant variations exist in different areas of the world.
Lunch (album)
Lunch is the fourth album by the British art rock band Audience, released in 1972. It was their last original release before the departure of Keith Gemmell and the band's breaking up for several years. It peaked at 175 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Usage examples of "lunch".
Major Migel affectionately dubbed the Forest Hills trio, that they had entertained almost every delegate to the World Conference, keeping open house and lunching or dining as many of the foreign visitors as possible.
There, they ate lunch at a seafood shack on Almar Avenue, with outdoor tables, and went for a long walk along West Cliff Drive and out onto the ocean view point before heading back into San Francisco.
I became acquainted with them on the night before my trip, when they were both busy in an amateurish way making up cardboard boxes of lunch, and invited me to help them.
McGinty: patrolling slowly back and forth across the straits until noon, performing the duties just described, then after lunch anchoring in a quiet little cove on the Shikoku side for the afternoon, watching the strait visually and by radar, and communicating with any passing ships by radio or twenty-four-inch signal light.
The Archdeacon went across to the mantelshelf, set down his burden, looked at it for a minute or two, murmured a prayer, and went down to lunch.
Further letters exchanged between him and the Archdeacon had led to an agreement that he should spend the first Sunday of his holiday at the Rectory, arriving for lunch on the Saturday.
I had noticed that Senor Arista was usually at his desk in the small area behind the registration desk during the hour before lunch.
He was lunching with Frederick Zern and other stockholders interested in the Aureole Mine, and was anxious to hear their opinions.
The cafe still serves breakfast all day, but the quiche on the menu is as likely to contain porta bello mushrooms as cheddar cheese, the bread is homemade, thick, and filled with goodies like wheat germ and nuts, and the lunch sandwiches are served on baguettes with avocado slices and bean sprouts.
Swing by this simple, quaint bakery in the heart of Healdsburg for breakfast, lunch, or a coffee and pastry.
After calming Amery and Baldric down, Alex had taken the time out for lunch.
I met up with Foster at the Pan Pan just in time for an early lunch of juicy barbecued ribs and an excellent chopped barbecued-pork sandwich.
You meet, for example, two or three Tradesmen in the street, whom your recognize at once to be Tradesman by a glance at their angles and rapidly bedimmed sides, and you ask them to step into your house to lunch.
Whenever possible he tried to sit besher in the bus, read his book out loud to her, give her his cupcake at lunch.
Then they had a wedding and after the wedding they went home and then they had some lunch and a drink and then they set off for Bethlem on their honeymoon and they went on a donkey.