Pinching

What do we mean by pinching?

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

To squeeze between two objects.

To steal, usually something inconsequential.

To arrest or capture.

To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

To complain or find fault.

In the Cannabis Growing industry, in Canada anyways, pinching refers to removing the growing top parts of a Cannabis plant (called the apical meristems in biology) , and often the grower uses his fingers to remove the young shoots of the plant, thumb & nails as if to pinch something that's why they call it to pinch to chop off the young shoots of the plant, so that the continuing growing part of the plant will divide and later produce more product, more Cannabis smoking material, according to professional growers. Urban Dictionary

To get arrested by the police.... a very old term. Urban Dictionary

When an asshole of a drug dealer buys weed, and resells it for the same price, but pinches some weed from the bag for himself and not telling the buyer. Therefore, accumilating weed for free. Urban Dictionary

To steal a small amount of Marijuana from someone elses bag. Urban Dictionary

A very little amount or to a small degree. Opposite of grip of, grippa, gang of, and hella. See also pincha. Urban Dictionary

Spanish-language expression meaning: a) Kitchen boy. The guys who clean up the Chef's mess and scrub the frying pans and carry stuff around. In this context it's still used in Spain. b) In Mexico, it's an all-purpose insult enhancer, which would be roughly equivalent to the use of *fucking* in English. If Jay (Silent Bob's hetero life mate) spoke Spanish, he would say *pinche* A LOT. Pinche is strongly associated with cursing in Mexican Spanish and the very moment you use it gives you away as a Mexican national. So you pinches gringos take that into account if youre trying to pass for an Argentine or whatever. c) In Mexico, it's also used as an adjective to describe something as insignificant, lousy, miserable or worthless. Urban Dictionary

1)in a tight spot 2)got caught by the cops Urban Dictionary

Evict. Refers specifically to eviction from rented residential property for failing to pay rent. Occasionally, landlords will warn their tenants who are behind on rent with this euphemistic term. Urban Dictionary

1. if necessary 2. in trouble Urban Dictionary

Caught. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to pinching:
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Words that rhyme with pinching:
lynching, unflinching, clinching, flinching, inching, chin ching, chin chung, lin ching, lin chung, min ching, yin ching.

Adjectives that are often used to describe pinching:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective pinching:
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Consonant match to pinching:
punching, paunching.

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