pinchers

Noun

pincher (plural pinchers)

1. A person or thing that pinches, as in squeezing; e.g. a miser or penny pincher.
   • The troubles can be endless: a mix-up on meals, a shortage of liquor, engine difficulties, other mechanical quirks, male pinchers, female whiners, vomiting children, two-timing stewardesses who steal your man, and, once in awhile,^([sic]) a plane that takes a good friend to a fiery death.1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 3
2. A person or thing that pinches, as in stealing; e.g. a thief or kleptomaniac.
   • “And they would certainly take offence, were their son to be accused of theft.” “It would stir them up like an egg whisk. I mean, however well they know that Wilbert is a pincher, they don't want to have it rubbed in.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
3. Eggcorn of pincer.

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Noun

pincers pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
   • Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107
2. (plural, plural-only) The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.