pinch /pinch or pinsh/

1. To compress a small part of between fingers and thumb or between any two surfaces, to nip
2. To squeeze
3. To crush
4. To nip off
5. To bite (obsolete)
6. To bring or render by squeezing or nipping
7. (of eg cold or hunger) to affect painfully or injuriously
8. To cause to show the effects of such pain or injury
9. To harass
10. To hamper
11. To restrict
12. To stint, be miserly or frugal with
13. To find fault with (obsolete)
14. To steal (informal)
15. To arrest (informal)
16. To over-urge (horse-racing)
17. To move along with a lever

1. To nip or squeeze
2. To be painfully tight
3. To encroach
4. To carp
5. To live sparingly
6. To narrow, taper off (mining)

1. An act or experience of pinching
2. A critical time of difficulty or hardship
3. An emergency
4. A pleat (obsolete)
5. An upward curl of a hat-brim (obsolete)
6. A place of narrowing, folding, difficulty, or steepness
7. A quantity taken up between the finger and thumb
8. Hence, any small quantity
9. An iron bar used as a lever

pinched adjective

1. Having the appearance of being tightly squeezed
2. Hard pressed by want or cold
3. (of the face, or general appearance) haggard with cold, tiredness, hunger, etc
4. Narrowed
5. Straightened

pinchˈer noun

1. Someone who or something which pinches
2. (in pl) pincers (dialect)

pinchˈing noun and adjective

pinchˈingly adverb

pinchˈcock noun

A clamp that stops the flow of liquid by pinching a tube

pinchˈcommons singular noun

A niggard with food

pinch effect noun (nuclear eng)

In a plasma carrying a large current, the constriction arising from the interaction of the current with its own magnetic field

pinchˈfist, pinchˈgut or pinchˈpenny noun

A niggard

• have a care
• have a cob on
• have a crow to pluck with
• have a dekko
• have a finger in every pie
• have a fit
• have a friend at court
• have a game with
• have a go
• have-a-go
• have a go at
• have a good head on one's shoulders
• have a good mind
• have a good thing going
• have a good time
• have a great mind
• have a head like a sieve
• have a heart
• have a job to
• have all one's buttons
• have all one's buttons on
• have all one's eggs in one basket
• have all the answers
• have a load on
• have a memory like a sieve