cinch
Other forms: cinched; cinches; cinching
Something that's a cinch is incredibly easy. It's a cinch to eat a meticulously decorated cake — it's much more complicated to bake and frost one.
Cinch is one of those words with many meanings that seem unrelated at first glance. The original 19th-century North American definition, which is still used today, is "saddle girth," the straps that keep a horse's saddle in place. As a verb, cinch means "to pull tight," the way you'd cinch a belt. Informally, to cinch is to make absolutely certain: "It'll cinch her college decision if that school offers a scholarship."
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stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in placesynonyms: girth
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tie a cinch around
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get a grip on; get mastery of
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make sure of
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any undertaking that is easy to dosynonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkovertypes:doddlean easy tasktype of:
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a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumpstype of:all fours, high-low-jackcard games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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Vocabulary lists containing cinch
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