Crunch (n.)

A critical moment or situation, especially one that occurs because of a shortage of time or resources: a year-end crunch; an energy crunch.
[Alteration of craunch, possibly of imitative origin.]

There’s also an Internet address crunch as it has become apparent that  2[sup]32[/sup] (i.e. 4 billion) addresses is inadequate in the face of the exponentially explosive growth of the internet.

It’s also interesting that this noun form has been adjectivied ?? as "crunch time".

DJ

[quote author=demijohn link=board=wordsuggest;num=1062030904;start=0#0 date=08/27/03 at 20:35:03][center]...[/center]It’s also interesting that this noun form has been adjectivied ?? as "crunch time".

I’d go for the unvoiced dentolabial instead : «adjectify», «adjectified» (cf «objectify», etc)....

Henri