Crunch
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Crunch may refer to:
- Nestlé CrunchNestlé CrunchNestlé Crunch is the name of a chocolate bar made of milk chocolate with crisped rice mixed in, produced by Nestlé. Its current slogan is, "For the Kid in You." It was first introduced in 1937....
, a brand of candy and ice cream produced by Nestle - Crunch (exercise)Crunch (exercise)The crunch is one of the most common abdominal exercises. It primarily works the rectus abdominis muscle.-Form:A crunch begins with lying face up on the floor with knees bent. The movement begins by curling the shoulders towards the pelvis. The hands can be behind or beside the neck or crossed over...
, a strength training exercise for the abdominal muscles - Crunch (Impellitteri album), 2000
- Crunch (Cry Wolf album)Crunch (Cry Wolf album)Second album released by the glam rock band Cry Wolf-Track listing:#"Road To Ruin"#"Red Shoes"#"Face Down In The Wishing Well"#"Long Hard Road"#"On The Run"#"Stop, Look & Listen"#"Pretender"#"Dirty Dog Night"#"West Wind Blows"#"Back To You"...
- Crunch (book)Crunch (book)Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? is a book written by Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and published in 2008. In it, Bernstein offers a layman's introduction to how the U.S. economic system works...
, a 2008 book by Jared Bernstein - Crunch Bandicoot, a fictional character in the Crash Bandicoot video game series
- Crunch FitnessCrunch FitnessCrunch Fitness is a chain of approximately 20 American fitness clubs located in and near New York City, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland and Miami.-Locations:As of March 2011 the club had 30 locations.Los Angeles Area,Miami,...
, a chain of American health clubs - Crunch (programming block), a collection of television programs, aired on YTV during Saturday mornings
- John DraperJohn DraperJohn Thomas Draper , also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman , is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak. He is a legendary figure within the computer programming world.- Background :Draper is the son of a U.S...
(born 1943), Vietnam War veteran, computer programmer and phone phreak who uses the alias Captain Crunch, sometimes shortened to Crunch - Crunch, a character in the children's novel The Cowardly Lion of OzThe Cowardly Lion of OzThe Cowardly Lion of Oz is the seventeenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the third written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill.-Plot:...
- Le CrunchLe CrunchThe first Anglo-French rugby union match was held on March 22, 1906 at Parc des Princes in Paris.The traditional name for the annual England versus France rugby union match in the Six Nations Championship as used on both sides of the English Channel is Le Crunch. Games have also been played as...
, the name of the rugby test match between England and France - Crunch time, in video game programming, unpaid overtime usually prior to a deadline
- Syracuse CrunchSyracuse CrunchThe Syracuse Crunch are a minor league professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Syracuse, New York, at the War Memorial at Oncenter...
, ice hockey team based in Syracuse, New York - Crunch (computer term)Data compressionIn computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....
, the act of using data compression routines - Big CrunchBig CrunchIn physical cosmology, the Big Crunch is one possible scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity.- Overview :...
, the hypothetical process by which the universe would revert back into a singularity