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pin
verb- to scrutinise someone or something to look at someone or something intently US
- The paddy boy’d just pass by you and say, “Watch it, baby, the Man is on the next corner,” or “The Man is pinning you from across the street.” — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 161, 1965
- Last night I pinned the heat, I see them. They were sitting there. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 202, 1967
- Shit, them whores you “pinning” ain’t but half the stable. — Iceberg Slim(Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 119, 1969
- But Spoon and I just grinned / as we continued to pin / to see who else was there. — Lightnin’ Rod, Hustlers Convention, p. 43, 1973
- When this queen rolled on the scene and began to pin / With one look at her I could tell she was pure sin. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 52, 1976
- to inject a drug UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
- to tattoo something with improvised equipment US
- Kenny also got himself tattooed while there; a sparkling pair of dice, showing up a winning roll of seven, was pinned into his left forearm[.] — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 65, 1972
- to act as a lookout US
- [T]he “hip square” tends to sympathize with the inmate code and adheres to some of its principles, sometimes going so far as to “pin”–to act as a lookout–for other inmates. — Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women, p. 116, 1966
▶ pin for home
on the railways, to leave work and go home US- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 115, 1977
▶ pin on
to fix the blame on someone UK- would not make a premature move against [Kim] Philby, until he could indisputably pin the goods on him. — Times Literary Supplement, 7 December 1979
▶ pin one on
to consume a drink AUSTRALIA- “Yer gunna pin one on?” “What is this pin one on, Joe?” “Knock one back. Gunna ‘ave a drink?” — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 42, 1957
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