crunchy

Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.

I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.

Inspector: Well, don't you even take the bones out? Mr. Hilton: If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.

San Francisco was a very crunchy town.

Silky mama won't typically go for cloth diapers like crunchy mama.

Of a chord, containing dissonant intervals.

Of an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.

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A pellet of dry cat food.

Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it.

He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly.

An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank).

"Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."

Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did.