crunchy

Meanings

1. Likely to crunch, especially with reference to food when it is eaten.
2. Having counter-culture sensibilities; nature-loving or hippie; wholesome, health-conscious.
3. Of a chord, containing dissonant intervals.
4. Of an image, pixelated, grainy, or exhibiting blocking, often as a result of oversharpening, a low resolution, or aggressively applied lossy image compression.
5. Of a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.

1. A pellet of dry cat food.
2. An infantryman, as opposed to a tanker (combatant manning a tank).

Etymology

From crunch + -y. The slang sense is derived from the concept of crunchy granola.