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Pinching

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That pinches, or causes such a sensation

    "It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward."

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who or that which pinches.

    "Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush."

  2. 2
    The act of pinching off new growth.

    "Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10."

  3. 3
    theft

    "As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle")."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of pinch form-of, gerund, participle, present

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