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Definition 2025

torchy ‎(comparative torchier, superlative torchiest)

(music) Having the character of a torch song.
- 1988 October 21, Albert Williams, “Follies; 1000 Airplanes on the Roof”, in Chicago Reader:
  […] the lovelorn Sally sings a torchy blues (the poignant "Losing My Mind"), hypocritical Ben masquerades as a carefree song-and-dance man in the bubbly, Gershwin-esque "Live, Laugh, Love," and so on.

having the character of a torch song