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pinchbecks

pinchbecks is the plural of pinchbeck.

Meaning of pinchbeck

Noun

pinchbeck (usually uncountable, plural pinchbecks)

  1. (usually) An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.

See all 5 meanings of pinchbeck

Proper noun capitalized: Pinchbecks

Pinchbecks

  1. (plural) plural of Pinchbeck

Questions about pinchbecks

What is pinchbecks the plural of?
Pinchbecks is the plural of pinchbeck.
What part of speech is pinchbecks?
Pinchbecks is a proper noun.

Words near pinchbecks in the dictionary

  1. Pinchas
  2. pinchback
  3. pinchbar
  4. pinchbars
  5. pinchbeck
  6. pinchbecks
  7. pinchcock
  8. pinchcocks
  9. pinchcommons
  10. pincheck
  11. pinchecks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinchbecks (page history and authors); Pinchbecks (page history and authors); pinchbeck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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