pinch
41pinch — Synonyms and related words: abstract, ace, acute pain, afflict, agonize, ail, alternate, alternative, and, annex, apprehend, apprehension, approach, appropriate, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, atom, backup, bag, bare cupboard, bare subsistence …
42Pinch — 1. steal; 2. arrest; 3. arrest; 4. tight situation: if it came to a pinch ; at a pinch …
43pinch — Australian Slang 1. steal; 2. arrest; 3. tight situation: if it came to a pinch ; at a pinch …
44Pinch — This means to steal something. Though when you say steal it is a bit more serious than pinch. A kid might pinch a cake from the kitchen. A thief would steal something during a burglary …
45pinch — 1. to steal Literally, to nip between the fingers: He had spent most of his life in clink for pinching anything from a roll of linoleum to a hurricane lamp. (Bogarde, 1972) 2. to arrest From the grasping of the subject: He got …
46pinch — [[t]pɪntʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the jaws of an instrument, or the like 2) to constrict or squeeze painfully, as a tight shoe does 3) to render unnaturally constricted or drawn: a face pinched with… …
47pinch — Iniki, ūmi i, ini iniki, niki, umiki, pāniki; pikipiki (as in milking); ♦ pinch off, ōniki, ō ū; ♦ pinch between fingers, ūpiki, ōpiki …
48pinch — an informal unit of volume used in food recipes. Historically a pinch was defined as an amount that can be taken between the thumb and forefinger but without any definite equivalent in other units. Recently kitchen supply stores in the U.S.… …
49pinch — See: TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT also TAKE WITH A PINCH OF SALT, WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES …
50pinch — See: TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT also TAKE WITH A PINCH OF SALT, WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES …
