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pinchings

pinchings is the plural of pinching.

Meaning of pinching

Noun

pinching (plural pinchings)

  1. The act of one who or that which pinches.
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River
  2. The act of pinching off new growth.
    • Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.1926, Bimonthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, page 139
  3. theft
    • As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle").1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 20

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Questions about pinchings

What is pinchings the plural of?
Pinchings is the plural of pinching.

Words near pinchings in the dictionary

  1. pinching off
  2. pinching one off
  3. pinching out
  4. pinching pennies
  5. pinchingly
  6. pinchings
  7. Pinchinthorpe
  8. pinchite
  9. pinchlike
  10. pincho
  11. pinchos

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