pinning Definition

pin
noun

1. A short slender implement with a sharp point and small round head, usually made of stainless steel, for fastening, attaching, etc, and used especially in dressmaking.
2. Any of several fastening devices consisting of or incorporating a slender metal or wire shaft.

Example: hatpin
Example: safety pin
Thesaurus: brooch, stickpin (US), tiepin.
3. A narrow brooch.
4. Any of several cylindrical wooden or metal objects with various functions.

Example: a rolling-pin
5. A peg of any of various kinds.

Thesaurus: brace, bolt, bar, dowel.
6. Any or either of the cylindrical or square-sectioned legs on an electric plug.
7. A club-shaped object set upright for toppling with a ball.

Example: ten-pin bowling
8. The clip on a grenade, that is removed before it is thrown.
9. golf.
The metal shaft of the flag marking a hole.
10. colloq
One's legs.
Example: shaky on my pins
Form: pins
11. old use
The least bit.
Example: doesn't care a pin

verb pinned, pinning

1. To secure it with a pin.

Thesaurus: tack, attach, affix, fasten, secure.
Form: pin something together, back, up (also)
2. To make a small hole in something.
3. chess.
To cause an opponent's piece to be unable to move without checking its own king.

Idiom: for two pins

colloq
Very readily; if given the smallest reason or encouragement, etc.
Example: For two pins, I'd come with you

Idiom: pin one's hopes on something or someone (pin one's faith on something or someone)

To rely on or trust in them entirely.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon pinn: from Latin pinna point.

Phrasal Verb: pin someone down

To force a commitment or definite expression of opinion from them.

Phrasal Verb: pin something down

To identify or define it precisely.

Phrasal Verb: pin something or someone down

To hold them fast or trap them.
Example: pinned the escaping prisoner down on the ground

Phrasal Verb: pin something on someone

To put the blame for (a crime or offence) on them.

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