crunches
nounUK /ˈkrʌntʃɪz/
US /ˈkrʌntʃɪz/
Crunches are exercises where you lie down and lift your head and shoulders up to make your tummy muscles strong.
She does twenty crunches every morning before breakfast.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The loud sounds made when you bite hard food like chips or leaves.
The crunches of the dry leaves under our feet echoed in the forest.
3. The third-person form of the verb crunch, meaning to press or grind something with a noisy sound.
He crunches the ice between his teeth.
4. A critical shortage or difficult situation, often used in phrases like 'credit crunch'.
The company struggled during the budget crunch.
5. Numbers or data processed quickly by a computer.
The program crunches millions of records in seconds.