Lunch | Mean of lunch in English Dictionary

/ˈlʌntʃ/

• Noun
• a light meal eaten in the middle of the day
1. I like to eat/have a healthy lunch every day.
2. a company lunch [=luncheon]
3. We took a picnic lunch to the park.
4. They've brought their own lunches with them.
5. We discussed the idea over a working/business lunch. [=a lunch during which people talk about business matters]
6. What's for lunch?
7. I had/ate just a sandwich for lunch.
8. Where do you want to go for lunch? = Where do you want to eat/have lunch?
9. I bought her some lunch.
10. She often sits alone at lunch. [=while eating lunch]
11. We discussed the idea over lunch. [=during lunch; while eating lunch]
12. I offered to take her out to lunch. [=to take her to a restaurant for lunch]
13. Let's do lunch sometime.
• to defeat someone or something very badly
1. The big hardware chain was eating the local store's lunch. [=the big chain was taking a lot of business from the local store]
• to throw up
1. I felt like I was about to lose my lunch.

• not aware of what is really happening
1. That guy acts like he's out to lunch.
• Verb
• to eat lunch
1. She often lunches in the park.
2. We lunched on leftovers.