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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Chinch

· IPA /t͡ʃɪnt͡ʃ/
01 n. The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
  1. 1.
    The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.(Zool.) Also: chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug