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General dictionaries General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. pinch, the pinch: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. pinch: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. pinch, pinch: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. pinch: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Pinch, pinch: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. pinch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Pinch: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. pinch: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  10. pinch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. pinch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. pinch: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Pinch, pinch: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. pinch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. Pinch, pinch: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. pinch: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  17. pinch: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  18. Pinch (artist), Pinch (cooking), Pinch (disambiguation), Pinch (drummer), Pinch (dubstep artist), Pinch (dubstep musician), Pinch (magnetic fusion), Pinch (musician), Pinch (plasma physics), Pinch (puppet), Pinch (whisky), Pinch, The Pinch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  19. Pinch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  20. pinch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  21. pinch: Rhymezone [home, info]
  22. pinch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  23. pinch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  24. Pinch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
  25. pinch: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. pinch: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. pinch: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. pinch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. pinch: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. pinch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. Pinch: Banjo Glossary [home, info]
  3. pinch: Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch (disambiguation), pinch: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch (disambiguation), Pinch (plasma physics), pinch: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinch (disambiguation), pinch: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinch: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinch: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinch: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom [home, info]
  2. The Pinch: Urban Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Pinch: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pinch: Glossary of Coal Mining Terms [home, info]
  2. Pinch: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (pinch)

noun:  a squeeze with the fingers
noun:  an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
noun:  a painful or straitened circumstance ("The pinch of the recession")
noun:  small sharp biting
noun:  a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
noun:  the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
noun:  a slight but appreciable addition
verb:  irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear ("The pain is as if sharp points pinch your back")
verb:  squeeze tightly between the fingers ("He pinched her behind")
verb:  cut the top off
verb:  make ridges into by pinching together
verb:  make off with belongings of others
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #33064)

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Phrases that include pinch:   penny pinch, pinch runner, felt the pinch, jack at a pinch, on a pinch, more...

Words similar to pinch:   arrest, nip, abstract, apprehension, cabbage, catch, collar, crimp, emergency, exigency, filch, hint, hook, jot, lift, mite, nobble, pilfer, pinched, pinches, more...


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