Definition of "crunchy" []

• Making a crunching or cracking sound, as when chewed; crisp: crunchy fresh vegetables. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "For a time I had considered not shaving my legs and becoming what we called crunchy and almost took a job the year after college to study capuchins and squirrel monkeys in Guyana, where I would have had to bathe in the river and pick my food from the trees."
• "A thinly veiled attempt at being authentic on the outside, when the inside had turned all crunchy from the attention."
• "The best part of refrigerator pickles is they remain crunchy for months."