crunchy

Etymology

crunch + -y

adj

1. Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.
   I put some lettuce in the burger to make it more crunchy.
2. (slang) Having sensibilities of a counter-culture nature lover or hippie; derived from the concept of crunchy granola.
   San Francisco is a very crunchy town.

noun

1. (usually in the plural) A pellet of dry cat food.
   Finally she paws a crunchy out of the bowl, bends her head, [and] eats it. 2008, Bev Cooke, Feral, page 147
   He picked a single crunchy up in his mouth and munched it consideringly. 2013, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Fledgling, Second Edition
2. (military slang) an infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank)
   Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies. 2009, James Wesley Rawles, Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse
   Since tankers are no brighter than infantry types, those men assigned to the Twelfth Infantry Division's armored unit thought their tour was a bitter waste, rather than being grateful for not getting wiped out nearly as regularly as the crunchies did. 2009, Chris Bunch, Allan cole, A Reckoning For Kings: A Novel of Vietnam