Cinch

Quick meaning: Cinch is a noun meaning A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

Meaning

A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

More Meanings

1. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
2. (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
3. (informal) A firm hold.
4. To bring to certain conclusion.
5. To tighten down.
6. (card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
7. (card games) 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.

Example Sentences

We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.

[Ostriches] also lack the tiny hooks, or barbicels, that cinch feathers together in most other birds.

As a matter of fact, from the look of Elmer's shoulder, it wasn't a cinch that he would ever pitch again.

He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.

Word Forms

• cinches
• cinching
• cinched

Synonyms for cinch

Depending on context, synonyms include breeze, snap, girth, walkover, picnic, pushover.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include girth, picnic, snap, walkover, pushover, cobbler.

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