clutchy

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adjective

Tending to clutch; clingy or grabby.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveclutchy (comparative more clutchy, superlative most clutchy)

comparative more clutchy · superlative most clutchy

  1. Tending to clutch; clingy or grabby.

    It is unavoidable that culture and biology dance together, sometimes in a graceful and seamless tango and at other times a clutchy foxtrot, stepping on each other's toes.

    2016, Molly K. Zuckerman, Debra L. Martin, New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology, page 43
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    You're triangulated when a clutchy, cloying kissy-poo couple uses you like a decorative backdrop to their perpetual prom night, when you're just supposed to sit there like a sexless old aunt and say, "Oh, you two."

    1999, Out, volume 7, number 8, page 104

Origin

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Chicago

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