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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Crunch \Crunch\, v. t. To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit. [1913 Webster] Crunk From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Crunch \Crunch\ (kr[u^]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crunched} (kr[u^]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crunching}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch.] 1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch. [1913 Webster] And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 2. To grind or press with violence and noise. [1913 Webster] The ship crunched through the ice. --Kane. [1913 Webster] 3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise. [1913 Webster] The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. --H. James. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: crunch n 1: the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path" 2: a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources); "an end-of-the year crunch"; "a financial crunch" 3: the act of crushing [syn: {crush}, {crunch}, {compaction}] v 1: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" [syn: {crunch}, {scranch}, {scraunch}, {crackle}] 2: press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: {crunch}, {cranch}, {craunch}, {grind}] 3: chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks" [syn: {crunch}, {munch}] 4: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: {grind}, {mash}, {crunch}, {bray}, {comminute}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform. The pain may be due to the triviality's being embedded in a loop from 1 to 1,000,000,000. ?FORTRAN programs do mostly {number-crunching}.? 2. vt. To reduce the size of a file by a complicated scheme that produces bit configurations completely unrelated to the original data, such as by a Huffman code. (The file ends up looking something like a paper document would if somebody crunched the paper into a wad.) Since such compression usually takes more computations than simpler methods such as run-length encoding, the term is doubly appropriate. (This meaning is usually used in the construction file crunch(ing) to distinguish it from {number-crunching}.) See {compress}. 3. n. The character #. Used at XEROX and CMU, among other places. See {ASCII}. 4. vt. To squeeze program source into a minimum-size representation that will still compile or execute. The term came into being specifically for a famous program on the BBC micro that crunched BASIC source in order to make it run more quickly (it was a wholly interpretive BASIC, so the number of characters mattered). {Obfuscated C Contest} entries are often crunched; see the first example under that entry.