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What does pinch mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pinch? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
  3. To squeeze between two objects.
  4. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
  5. (slang) To arrest or capture.
  6. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  7. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  8. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  9. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
  10. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
  11. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
  12. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
  13. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
Noun
  1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  2. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
  3. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  4. An organic herbal smoke additive.
  5. (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament
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