Noun
One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBut from there the visitors righted the ship and delivered some strong hockey down the stretch before closing the deal on a well-executed four-way passing play that finished with Josh Archibald sliding home the empty-net clincher. Source: Internet
Betts homered off Kershaw in their last World Series game, the 2018 clincher at Dodger Stadium. Source: Internet
And, the clincher for me is that it is one of the British Library Crime Classics edited by Martin Edwards, whom I adore and who has the brilliant, award-winning book The Golden Age of Murder, as well as his fiction writings. Source: Internet
Solskjaer’s reaction was to send on Paul Pogba and Greenwood, and Rashford went close to halving the deficit before De Gea was required to make some amends with a good one-handed save to deny Giroud what would have been a clincher. Source: Internet
Put another way, these people were bad when they were in the PPP and the PMLN, because, and this is the clincher, the leadership of those parties is bad. Source: Internet
Similar to a Hitchcock film, the tension is built up for the climatic revealing clincher. Source: Internet