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pinch
noun- an arrest US, 1900
- I am glad that the newspaper boys, who later liked to refer to me as an ace narcotic inspector, never heard the story of my first big pinch. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 71, 1945
- Cop across the street, instead of making his pinch, holds onto his big fat belly and roars. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 197, 1946
- You’ll be right behind me every inch of the way, but when the pinch comes I’ll get shoved aside and you slap the cuffs on. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 10, 1947
- The cops carry him from the curb where he has collapsed and lay him tenderly in a dirty hallway; the magistrates are lenient if a pinch is mandatory[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 63, 1948
- I thought it was a pinch. I didn’t know it was a shakedown till I got here[.] — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 71, 1948
- At the time the pinch was made Freddie, my other sister, had just been born, and we had other things than crime to talk about. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 296, 1953
- Except some of the wops–there was one boss did a long bit in a dope pinch[.] — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 52, 1975
- I have at least two dozen gambling and bookmaking pinches on me. — Casino, 1995
- a technique used by a man to maintain an erection, compressing the base of his penis US
- — Adult Video News September, p. 38, 1995
- very potent heroin, bought and used in small amounts US
- — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 145, 1993
- a small amount of marijuana UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 88, 1996
- a five-dollar note or five-dollar betting chip US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 67, 1988
- a steep incline AUSTRALIA, 1846
- Down several steep pinches the lubra went sprawling[.] — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 283, 1947
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