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   clutch

   /klʌtʃ/

   verb

   • 1. grasp (something) tightly: "he stood clutching a microphone"

   noun

   • 1. a tight grasp: "she made a clutch at his body"
   • ▪ a person's power or control, especially when regarded as inescapable: "Tom had fallen into Amanda's clutches"
   • 2. a mechanism for connecting and disconnecting an engine and the transmission system in a vehicle, or the working parts of any machine: "she let the clutch in and the car surged forward"
   • ▪ the pedal operating the clutch in a vehicle.
   • 3. a clutch bag. North American

   adjective

   • 1. (in sport) denoting or occurring at a critical situation in which the outcome of a game or competition is at stake: informal US "they both are hard-nosed players who seem to thrive in clutch situations"
   • ▪ (of a player or action) achieving or characterized by success at a critical moment in a game or competition: informal US "a clutch quarterback"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘bend, crook’): variant of obsolete clitch ‘close the hand’, from Old English clyccan ‘crook, clench’, of Germanic origin.

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