Usually means: Grasping and squeezing with fingers.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word pinching:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinching: Merriam-Webster
  2. pinching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pinching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pinching, pinching: Wordnik
  5. pinching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pinching: Wiktionary
  7. Pinching, pinching: Dictionary.com
  8. pinching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pinching (disambiguation), Pinching (technology): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pinching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pinching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Pinching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pinching: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Pinching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinching: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pinching: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinching: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinching: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Pinching: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinching: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinching: Pottery Studio

(Note: See pinch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pinching)

adjective:  That pinches, or causes such a sensation
noun:  The act of one who or that which pinches.
noun:  (horticulture) The act of pinching off new growth.
noun:  theft

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