pinch

1. Baseball Relating to pinch-hitting or pinch runners: a pinch single; a pinch steal of third base.

2. Hit by a pinch hitter .

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1. Pinch pennies Informal To be thrifty or miserly.

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1. A narrowing of a mineral deposit, as in a mine.

2. A painful, difficult, or straitened circumstance: felt the pinch of the recession.

3. An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger: a pinch of salt.

4. An emergency situation: This coat will do in a pinch.

5. Informal A theft.

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1. To squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument.

2. To prune the tip of (a plant or shoot) usually to induce branching.

3. To squeeze or compress painfully.

4. To cause physical or mental pain to.

5. To cause to appear thin, haggard, or shrunken.

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1. Nautical To drag an oar at the end of a stroke.

2. To be miserly.

3. To press, squeeze, or bind painfully: This collar pinches.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
pinch	12	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
hi	5
in	2
pi	4

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
chi	8
hic	8
hin	6
hip	8
ich	8
nip	5
phi	8
pic	7
pin	5

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
chin	9
chip	11
inch	9

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
pinch	12