crunchy

adjective

1. 1

   Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.

   I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.

   Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out? Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

   The importance of Nowruz is reflected in an elaborate sabzi polo, the herbed rice capped with a crunchy tahdig, the crust formed from lettuce, rice mixed with yogurt or lavash or another thin flatbread. On Wednesday night, I opted for sheveed polo, a simpler and quicker dill rice, but I can’t wait to nail that crunchy tahdig tonight.

2. 2

   figurativeHaving counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.

   San Francisco was a very crunchy town.

   Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama.

   Weiner says being in Oakland “allows you to encounter different ideas” in terms of style “like crunchy, old people in the organic produce section of the grocery store, wearing very Bay Area specific outfits”.

   The pipeline is real; individual people are indeed being recruited into the militant right. Some of them make this journey through “crunchy” online spaces into white-power content, as the sociologist Cynthia Miller-Idriss has documented in Hate in the Homeland.

3. 3

   informalOf a chord, containing dissonant intervals.

4. 4

   informalOf an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.

   This can result in the image looking very crunchy as pixels are skipped - especially if you choose the "Fit" option in the Magnification popup. Don't panic; your final image won't look that bad[…]

   […] pixels that look hideous on screen to a printing device. But if the pixels don't look seriously crunchy on the display, you're almost certainly undersharpening your images. The only reliable way to evaluate print sharpening is to[…]

5. 5

   slangOf a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.

noun

1. 1

   A pellet of dry cat food.

   Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it.

   He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly.

2. 2

   slangAn infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank).

   "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."

   Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did.

Forms

plural

crunchies

comparative

crunchier

superlative

crunchiest