[Ads-l] Idle curiosity

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Urban Dictionary has some pertinent definitions that seem to fit the
ESPN usage. The downvotes suggest that there is some resistance to
these definitions.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clutch

[Begin definition 2]
clutch
Exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

"The other day I was really hungry but thought I had no money on me.
Then I found five dollars in my jacket pocket--that was clutch."

by FtG January 08, 2006

Upvote 2133 Downvote 1265
[End definition 2]

[Begin definition 4]
clutch
Great, Essential, and Potent rolled into a single word. Clutch is also
used to describe something that is done, not something that is.

Stealing your orange soda was so clutch.

Pulling the special move on Jenna was clutch.

by Ezra June 30, 2003

Upvote 2669 Downvote 2182
[End definition 4]


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jul 12, 2015, at 7:48 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> =
> wrote:
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>> It's not really sports context, except in the most superficial sense.
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>> The underlying phrase is "That's clutch!" in the sense similar to =
> "That's
>> cool!". That's not the same meaning that's in sports context, unless =
> I'm
>> completely misinterpreted the expression.
>
> If you have, I've done so as well, as noted earlier.  I hadn't been =
> familiar with "That's clutch" (or "X is clutch") in contexts unrelated =
> to good performance in stressful and/or game-meaningful situations, but =
> "that's cool" (or even "that's good") seems consistent with the example =
> upthread.  I took the use in the ESPNapp commercial to allude to a =
> semantic change along the lines of 'well-performing in crucial =
> situations' > 'well-performing (generally)', helped along by the =
> familiarity of ad consumers with the sports context. =20
>
> LH
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>> VS-)
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>> On 12:11pm, Sun, Jul 12, 2015 Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> =
> wrote:
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>> Clutch as an adjective in the context of sports is new??
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>> DanG
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>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Arnold Zwicky =
> <arnold.zwicky at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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