The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ABS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Targets of crunches, informally crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABS | 100 % | 3 |
Why may ABS be the right solution?
The answer "ABS" fits the clue because "crunches" are an exercise that specifically target the abdominal muscles, which are commonly referred to as "abs."
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Crossword Answer definitions
ABS noun- Abdominal muscle.
- An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
- To abseil.
- The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
- (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- To terminate a process prior to completion.
- Initialism of absolute value function.
- Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
- Derived; extracted.
- Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Absent-minded.
- Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
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