pincer | (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, claw, nipper |
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(noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, tweezer |
pinch | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: tweak |
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(noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, taking into custody |
(noun) a small sharp bite or snip | Synonyms: nip |
(noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, exigency |
(noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch |
(noun) an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed | - |
(noun) a painful or straitened circumstance | - |
(verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
(verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
(verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
(verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold | - |
pinche | (noun) South American tamarin with a tufted head | Synonyms: Leontocebus oedipus |
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pinched | (adjective) as if squeezed uncomfortably tight | - |
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(adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: adenoidal, nasal |
(adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious |
(adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted |
pinchgut | (noun) a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) | - |
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pincushion | (noun) a small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use | - |
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