Usually means: Grasp and compress between fingers.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word pinch:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pinch: Merriam-Webster
  3. pinch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pinch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pinch, the pinch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pinch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pinch, pinch: Wordnik
  8. pinch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pinch: Wiktionary
  10. pinch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pinch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pinch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pinch, pinch: Dictionary.com
  14. pinch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pinch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pinch (action), Pinch (cooking), Pinch (drummer), Pinch (dubstep musician), Pinch (film), Pinch (measurement), Pinch (plasma physics), Pinch (unit), Pinch (whisky), Pinch, The Pinch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pinch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pinch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pinch: Rhymezone
  20. pinch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pinch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pinch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. pinch: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pinch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pinch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pinch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch (disambiguation), pinch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch (disambiguation), Pinch (plasma physics), pinch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pinch (disambiguation), pinch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinch: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch, pinch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pinch: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Pinch: Urban Dictionary
  4. Pinch: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
verb:  To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
verb:  To squeeze between two objects.
verb:  (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
verb:  (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
verb:  (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
verb:  (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
verb:  (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
verb:  (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
verb:  To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
verb:  (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
noun:  The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
noun:  A close compression of anything with the fingers.
noun:  A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
noun:  An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
noun:  A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
noun:  An organic herbal smoke additive.
noun:  (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
noun:  The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
noun:  (slang) An arrest.

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