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pinfinger

pinfinger noun: synonym of knife game.

Noun

pinfinger (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of knife game.
    • Lambert also uncovers some nasty quasi-formal physical punishments dealt out by prefects to younger boys: whipping with a piece of rope dipped in brine at one school, fixed numbers of punches to the face for different crimes, and a Russian roulette game called pinfinger, which involved stabbing at...2017 April 6, Alex Renton, Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN
    • […]a nimble six-part sequence based on pinfinger, which involves stabbing repeatedly and with increasing rapidity between splayed fingers[…]2018 September 14, David Collard, “Put a spell on you”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 6024, News UK
    Synonyms:
    knife game

Examples of pinfinger in a sentence

  • He had scars on all his fingers from where their father missed whenever he played a drunken game of pinfinger using Brysen’s spread hand pressed against the table.2018 September 25, Alex London, chapter 2, in Black Wings Beating, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
  • JUST WORKING ON A RELATED SKILL… KNIFE GAME, OR PINFINGER…2021 June 4, Jim Meddick, “Monty”, in The Republican, page B7:

Synonyms of pinfinger

Origin of pinfinger

From pin + finger.

Questions about pinfinger

What does pinfinger mean?
Pinfinger means synonym of knife game.
How do you use pinfinger in a sentence?
He had scars on all his fingers from where their father missed whenever he played a drunken game of pinfinger using Brysen’s spread hand pressed against the table.
What part of speech is pinfinger?
Pinfinger is a noun.

Words near pinfinger in the dictionary

  1. pinfeathers
  2. pinfeed
  3. pinfeeds
  4. Pinfield
  5. Pinfields
  6. pinfinger
  7. pinfire
  8. pinfires
  9. pinfish
  10. pinfishes
  11. pinfold

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