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What (who) is Pinch - definition
Pinch (unit)
AMOUNT THAT CAN BE TAKEN BETWEEN THE THUMB AND FOREFINGER
Pinch (measurement); Pinch (cooking)
A pinch is a small, indefinite amount of a substance, typically a powder like salt, sugar, spice, or snuff.Oxford English Dictionary s.
pinch
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Pinch (musician); Pinch technology; Pinch (disambiguation); Pinching; Pinch technology (disambiguation); Pinching (disambiguation)
(pinches, pinching, pinched)
1.
If you pinch a part of someone's body, you take a piece of their skin between your thumb and first finger and give it a short squeeze.
She pinched his arm as hard as she could...
We both kept pinching ourselves to prove that it wasn't all a dream.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
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Pinch is also a noun.
She gave him a little pinch.
N-COUNT
2.
A pinch of an ingredient such as salt is the amount of it that you can hold between your thumb and your first finger.
Put all the ingredients, including a pinch of salt, into a food processor.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
3.
To pinch something, especially something of little value, means to steal it. (INFORMAL)
...pickpockets who pinched his wallet.
VERB: V n
4.
If you say that something is possible at a pinch, or in American English if you say that something is possible in a pinch, you mean that it would be possible if it was necessary, but it might not be very comfortable or convenient.
Six people, and more at a pinch, could be seated comfortably at the table.
PHRASE: PHR with cl/group
5.
If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
Consumers are spending less and traders are feeling the pinch.
PHRASE: V inflects
pinch
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Pinch (musician); Pinch technology; Pinch (disambiguation); Pinching; Pinch technology (disambiguation); Pinching (disambiguation)
I
n.
painful squeeze
1) to give smb. a pinch
emergency
(colloq.)
2) at (BE), in (esp. AE) a pinch
arrest
(colloq.)
3) to make a pinch
II
v. (colloq.) (D; tr.) ('to arrest') to pinch for (pinched for speeding)
Examples of use of Pinch
1. Working in the film industry we feel the pinch even more but you got to take it with a pinch of salt.
2. Democrats pinch–hit for McNamee –– thereby bolstering Mitchell‘s conclusion.
3. The ultra–Orthodox are particularly feeling the pinch.
4. More polls» Feeling the financial pinch after Christmas?
5. Mention her dad and her lips pinch, her brow creases.