Anonymous #25 said: clutch 1 |klə ch | verb [ trans. ] grasp or seize (something) tightly or eagerly : he stood clutching a microphone | [ intrans. ] figurative Mrs. Longhill clutched at the idea. • (also Brit. clutch up) 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. • ( someone's clutches) a person's power or control, esp. when perceived as cruel or inescapable : he had narrowly escaped the clutches of the Nazis. 2 a slim, flat handbag without handles or a strap. 3 ( the clutch) an emergency or critical moment : he came through for us in the clutch [as adj. ] : they were among the best clutch hitters in baseball. 4 a mechanism for connecting and disconnecting a vehicle engine from its transmission system. • the pedal operating such a mechanism. • an arrangement for connecting and disconnecting the working parts of any machine. PHRASES clutch at straws see straw . ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [bend, crook] ): variant of obsolete clitch [close the hand,] from Old English clyccan [crook, clench,] of Germanic origin. clutch 2 |klətʃ| |klʌtʃ| noun a group of eggs fertilized at the same time, typically laid in a single session and (in birds) incubated together. • a brood of chicks. • a small group of people or things : a clutch of young girls on roller skates. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: probably a southern variant of northern English dialect cletch, related to Middle English cleck [to hatch,] from Old Norse klekja.
I don't know what shit hole part of the internet that came from but Webster's Dictionary, and the Oxford English Dictionary, do not recognize the above definition, more specifically the bizarre 3rd entry, where a noun is used as an adjective.
Both dictionaries recognize slang, and are frequently updated, their omission is likely because only a small group of faggots use the term in the way it has been defined in entry 3, while regular English speakers find the usage to be cumbersome and full of faggotry.
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