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pinned on

pinned on is the simple past and past participle of pin on.

Meaning of pin on

Verb

pin on (third-person singular simple present pins on, present participle pinning on, simple past and past participle pinned on)

  1. (US, transitive) To place the blame for (something) on (someone), especially unjustly.
    • The police pinned the theft on my brother.

Questions about pinned on

What is pinned on the simple past and past participle of?
Pinned on is the simple past and past participle of pin on.

Words near pinned on in the dictionary

  1. Pinneberg
  2. pinned
  3. pinned back
  4. pinned back one's ears
  5. pinned down
  6. pinned on
  7. pinned one's ears back
  8. pinned one's hopes on
  9. pinned post
  10. pinned posts
  11. pinned the meter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinned on (page history and authors); pin on (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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