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pinch
verb- to arrest someone UK, 1837
- We’re liable to get pinched for mashing on Sixty-third. I heard the Law is watching that pretty close. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 38, 1947
- The cop shrugged. “Looks like you’re pinched, kid,” he told me. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 195, 1951
- Which, when you consider that Emmitt Warring also seems to be immune, makes Georgetown seem like a wonderful place to live in–nobody ever gets pinched there. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 11, 1951
- A few dollars, an inexpensive wristwatch, a car that would get him pinched before he had it a day. — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 150, 1954
- POLICE OFFICIAL: I want to tell you that if this man ever uses a four-letter word in this club again, I’m going to pinch you and everyone in here. If he ever speaks against religion, I’m going to pinch you and everyone in here. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 146, 1965
- My kidneys ain’t too good, but I don’t wanna get pinched for pissin’ in public. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 36, 1977
- “ Hands against the wall, spread your legs and don’t move a fucking inch.” He’s been pinched. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 207, 1997
- to steal something UK, 1656
- He pinches a shoeshine box for me and we start out working the BMT trains. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 28, 1955
- “ Pinched. Jobbed. Swiped. Stole,” he says, happily. “You know, man, like somebody boosted my threads.” — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 94, 1962
- Anything that could be pinched could be sold. — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 9, 2000
- in horse racing, to win AUSTRALIA
A jockey may “pinch” a race. A bookmaker might manage to “pinch a little”. - — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 62, 1989
▶ pinch a loaf
to defecate US- — Michael Dalton Johnson, Talking Trash with Redd Foxx, p. 44, 1994
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