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   clutch

   /kləCH/

   verb

   • 1. grasp or seize (something) tightly or eagerly: "he stood clutching a microphone"
   • ▪ become nervous and panicked: "doctors could clutch up and lose control as easily as anyone"

   noun

   • 1. a tight grasp or an act of grasping something: "she made a clutch at his body"
   • ▪ a person's power or control, especially when perceived as cruel or inescapable: "she escaped the clutches of her temperamental family"
   • 2. a mechanism for connecting and disconnecting a vehicle engine from its transmission system: "she let the clutch in and the car surged forward"
   • ▪ the pedal operating a vehicle's clutch.
   • 3. a slim, flat handbag without handles or a strap. North American

   adjective

   • 1. (in sport) denoting or occurring in 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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