Clutch

English Meaning

A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

1. To grasp and hold tightly.
2. To seize; snatch.
3. To attempt to grasp or seize: clutch at a life raft.
4. To engage or disengage a motor vehicle's clutch.
5. A hand, claw, talon, or paw in the act of grasping.
6. A tight grasp.
7. Control or power. Often used in the plural: caught in the clutches of sin.
8. A device for gripping and holding.
9. Any of various devices for engaging and disengaging two working parts of a shaft or of a shaft and a driving mechanism.
10. The apparatus, such as a lever or pedal, that activates one of these devices.
11. A tense, critical situation: came through in the clutch.
12. A clutch bag.
13. Informal Being or occurring in a tense or critical situation: won the championship by sinking a clutch putt.
14. Informal Tending to be successful in tense or critical situations: The coach relied on her clutch pitcher.
15. The complete set of eggs produced or incubated at one time.
16. A brood of chickens.
17. A group; a bunch.
18. To hatch (chicks).