I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After that, he was on his own, but the thousand dollars was a cinch .
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Edith finds the cooking a cinch .
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He used the third to make a cinch between her hands and the chair's bottom rail.
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I doubted that the load could be lifted, but Leese said it would be a cinch .
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Making an ocean is no cinch .
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There was no manual with the beta version, but the package as a whole is a cinch to use.
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Today Astrid wore a white satiny dress with a wide gold cinch belt.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brown hopes to cinch the deal by Monday.
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She had her dress cinched at the waist with a belt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A piece of rope still cinched his neck.
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She had tinted blond hair, large glasses, a blue dress cinched at the waist by a wide glossy belt.
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The Los Angeles conference really cinched it for me.
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The zip gaped open an inch at his waist, which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt.