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lunch

lunch [ lunch ]

noun (plural lunch·es)

Definition:

1. midday meal: a meal eaten in the middle of the day, especially a light meal that is not the main meal of the day ( often used before a noun )

2. food eaten at midday: the food prepared and eaten at the midday meal

Our lunch was soup and salad.

intransitive verb (past and past participle lunched, present participle lunch·ing, 3rd person present singular lunch·es)

Definition:

have lunch: to eat lunch, especially a particular type of lunch eaten somewhere other than at home

[Early 19th century. Shortening of luncheon]

out to lunch an offensive term that means displaying thoughtlessness or unusual behavior in a way that suggests a loss of touch with reality (insult)

Cultural Note


	The Naked Lunch, a novel (1959) by William S. Burroughs. This controversial portrayal of drug abuse, written by Burroughs in Tunisia as he attempted to free himself of his own addiction, consists of a series of surreal episodes linked by themes and characters and described in language that is by turns clinical, hallucinatory, poetic, and scatological.