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| pinches | |
| 1. n. plural of pinch |  |
| pinch | |
| 1. v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. | |
| The children were scolded for pinching each other. | |
| This shoe pinches my foot. | |
| 2. v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger. | |
| 3. v. To squeeze between two objects. | |
| 4. v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential. | |
| Someone has pinched my handkerchief! | |
| 5. v. (slang) To arrest or capture. | |
| 6. v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield. | |
| 7. v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter. | |
| 8. v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous. | |
| 10. v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals. | |
| 11. v. (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve. | |
| to be pinched for money | |
| 12. v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. | |
| 13. v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault. | |
| 14. n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. | |
| 15. n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip. | |
| 16. n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape. | |
| 17. n. An organic herbal smoke additive. | |
| 18. n. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament. | |
| 19. n. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass. | |
| 20. n. (slang) An arrest. | |
