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Clincher   Listen
noun
Clincher  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
2.
That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.





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"Clincher" Quotes from Famous Books



... 478} confutation, refutation; answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution^, invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument [Lat.]; sockdolager [U.S.], correction &c 572.1; dissuasion &c 616. V. confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... the harness had not broken, as I feared it would put a clincher on my being allowed out driving alone ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... about fifteen years; but he is a century old in mischief and villany. He was playing at quoits the other day in the court; a gentleman—a decent-looking person enough—came past, and as a quoit hit his shin, he lifted his cane: but my young brave whips out his pistol, like Beau Clincher in the TRIP TO THE JUBILEE and had not a scream of GARDEZ L'EAU from an upper window set all parties a-scampering for fear of the inevitable consequences, the poor gentleman would have lost his life by the hands ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Clincher" :   tool, determining factor, causal factor, decisive factor, clincher-built, determiner


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