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What (who) is pin money - definition

IN CHESS, A SITUATION BROUGHT ON BY AN ATTACKING PIECE IN WHICH A DEFENDING PIECE CANNOT MOVE WITHOUT EXPOSING A MORE VALUABLE DEFENDING PIECE ON ITS OTHER SIDE TO CAPTURE BY THE ATTACKING PIECE

Unpinned knights; Relative pin; Absolute pin; Partial pin; Situational pin

pin money

Pin money is small amounts of extra money that someone earns or gets in order to buy things that they want but that they do not really need. (INFORMAL)

She'd do anything for a bit of pin money.

N-UNCOUNT

pin money

¦ noun a small sum of money for spending on inessentials.

Origin

C17: orig. denoting an allowance to a woman from her husband for dress and other personal expenses.

Spring pin

MECHANICAL FASTENER THAT SECURES THE POSITION OF TWO OR MORE PARTS RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER

Roll pin; Sellock pin; Coiled spring pins; Mills pin; Tension pin

A spring pin (also called tension pin or roll pin) is a mechanical fastener that secures the position of two or more parts of a machine relative to each other. Spring pins have a body diameter which is larger than the hole diameter, and a chamfer on either one or both ends to facilitate starting the pin into the hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_pin

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Pin (chess)

In chess, a pin is a tactic in which a defending piece cannot move out of an attacking piece's line of attack without exposing a more valuable defending piece. Moving the attacking piece to effect the pin is called pinning; the defending piece restricted by the pin is described as pinned. Only a piece that can move any number of squares along a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line (i.e. a bishop, rook, or queen) can pin. Any piece can be pinned except the king, which is the most valuable piece. The inverse of a pin is a skewer, in which a more valuable piece under direct attack may move to expose a less valuable piece to an attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin (chess)

Examples of use of pin money

1. I‘m sure the Millie Tant brigade could do with a bit of pin money in these harsh times, a few bob to buy something for their bottom drawer.

2. It‘s not an edifying spectacle." It certainly isn‘t, Barbie, but you must do what you can for pin money now the doorman‘s tips can no longer be expensed.

3. The school run pin money means children are consuming up to 100,000 extra calories over the course of an academic year – equivalent to 20 blocks of butter and 11 bags of sugar.

4. If you don‘t make it to college, meanwhile, you‘re likely to be earning pin money in a "grinding, impersonal and dead–end job", while being told that ever more rickety welfare provision means you should be saving money you haven‘t actually got.