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[ UK /pˈɪnt‍ʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪntʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a slight but appreciable amount
    this dish could use a touch of garlic
  2. an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
  3. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
    the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar
  4. a small sharp bite or snip
  5. a squeeze with the fingers
  6. a painful or straitened circumstance
    the pinch of the recession
  7. a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
    he never knew what to do in an emergency
VERB
  1. squeeze tightly between the fingers
    She squeezed the bottle
    He pinched her behind
  2. make ridges into by pinching together
  3. make off with belongings of others
  4. cut the top off
    top trees and bushes
  5. irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
    the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back
    smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth
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How To Use pinch In A Sentence

  • Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. The Sun
  • All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
  • I don't like swimming in the ocean that much either because the fact that all those fish have pinched a loave in there and it makes me a little squeezy. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
  • The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
  • Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
  • It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • You can stoke his silicon chest and pinch his squeezable bum - it may be the closest you ever get to doing it.
  • Flossing your teeth daily (or, at a pinch, using a mouthwash) can make you 6.4 years younger.
  • They would not give me a pinch of flour even if I starved to death.
  • You said you checked for it, but it seems likely that the chain is being pinched between the jockey wheel and the cog.
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