Clutch

What “Clutch” means

Verb

1. To seize, as though with claws.
2. To grip or grasp tightly.
3. To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.
4. To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.

Noun

1. The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
2. A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
3. A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
4. The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
5. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

Adj

1. Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations.

Noun

1. A brood of chickens or a sitting of bird, monotreme or reptile eggs; a sitting.
2. A group or bunch (of people or things).

Where the word comes from

From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”). Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb. Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).

Variant form of cletch, from Middle English cleken (“to hatch”), perhaps from Old Norse klekja (“to hatch”).

Business name ideas with “Clutch”

Industries where “Clutch” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Esports Team
• Sports Teams and Clubs