lunch

lunch
n.

1) to eat, have lunch

2) a business, working; three-martini (AE; colloq.) lunch

3) a box; picnic lunch

4) at lunch (they were all at lunch)

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[lʌntʃ]
have lunch
picnic lunch
three-martini (AE; colloq.) lunch
working
a box
a business
to eat
at lunch (they were all at lunch)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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