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pindown, n.|ˈpɪndaʊn|
Also pin-down, pin down.
[f. vbl. phr. to pin down: see pin v.1 6 b.]
1. Mil. The effective grounding of enemy missiles by inflicting sufficient damage to their ground sites to disable their guidance or propulsion systems.
1982N.Y. Times 11 Nov. b14/4 Because the ‘boost stages’ or rocket portions of missiles attempting to fly out through the pindown would probably be destroyed by X-ray energy, the President would have to delay launching United States ICBM's until the pindown ended. 1986J. Green A–Z Nuclear Jargon 130 Pin-down, the concept of saturating enemy missile bases with so many warheads that the resulting electro-magnetic confusion will render their outgoing guidance system useless.
2. In the U.K., a system formerly operated in certain children's homes whereby children considered difficult to deal with were placed in solitary confinement for long periods; (a period of) such confinement.
[1984R. Cruddace Log-bk. Entry 20 Jan. in Levy & Kahan Pindown Experience (1991) v. 36 Phil and Tony visited and pinned down J.... confined to his bedroom unless requested staff to come out...to be kept from R.... and all times no contact.] 1985in Ibid. vi. 60 Pindown – no – contact – schooling in his room or Duke's Lodge if Tony requires him. 1989High Court Injunction 13 Oct. in Ibid. i. 1 No child or young person in the care of (the local authority) shall be subjected to the regime known as ‘pin down’ in any form whatsoever without the leave of the court. 1991Independent 28 May 4/8 For the whole of the time in pin down I never saw another resident. My only contact was with the workers when they came to give me food. 1991Daily Tel. 31 May 4/1 He had coined the word pindown after his repetitive use of the phrase ‘we must pin down the problem’ while gesturing with his forefinger towards the floor. Children later began to speak of ‘being in pindown’. 1993Observer 21 Feb. 11/1 An 18-year old victim of sexual abuse has broken a three-year silence to tell of her ordeal under the infamous pindown regime that operated in Staffordshire children's homes in the Eighties. Ibid., I was in solitary confinement for two months, without any day clothes or footwear or anything to do except stare out of the window... From day one I was put..on pindown. |