pin
Meaning
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- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (informal) A leg.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- (obsolete) Caligo.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (slang) An injection of PEDs.
Synonyms
bowling pin
pin tumbler
ballhead pin
sewing pin
pivotal point
get stuck
grata
greta
red cross
stick on
axle-pin
churus
climbing iron
negociate
retinal cone
stink weed
red dirt
patchplug
Rose Marie
Brosme brosme
grefa
grifa
small stick
thin bar
wooden bolt
Brosmius
Kentucky blue
blue sage
crazy weed
skittle pin
straight pin
base pin
jackplug
pin bolt
set pin
fasten with nails
herba
shaft pin
mesh gauge
mesh bar
cochornis
Chicago green
Colorado cocktail
love weed
viper's weed
chira
llesca
marley
dona Juana
gauge butt
aunt Mary
African bush
giggle smoke
Columbus black
drag weed
white-haired lady
esra
yellow submarine
jive stick
Pakistani black
lubage
mor a grifa
mooca
bullyon
don Jem
giggle weed
snop
duby
cosa
messorole
dawamesk
frajo
jay smoke
grass brownies
mooster
righteous bush
flower tops
gunja
Wacky terbacky
laughing grass
potten bush
killer weed
pretendo
durog
coliflor tostao
yesco
kgb
pretendica
sezz
fraho
sasfras
kumba
griffa
Mary weaver
dubbe
laughing weed
bo-bo
hanhich
zambi
sweet Lucy
rasta weed
mohasky
m.u.
Mary Jonas
queen Ann's lace
modams
canamo
draf weed
splim
Panama gold
cheeo
dry high
Acapulco red
baby bhang
gunney
Panama cut
p.r.
smoke Canada
diambista
butter flower
yesca
dinkie dow
manhattan silver
joy smoke
lakbay diva
vipe
canappa
Mary and Johnny
cavite all star
Indian boy
mootie
crying weed
cannabis tea
takkouri
rainy day woman
o.j.
Mexican red
griffo
mootos
blowing smoke
siddi
good giggles
bobo bush
black bart
black gunion
funny staff
railroad weed
m.j.
bambalacha
ghanja
tex-mex
gungun
taima
doradilla
Mary Warner
yen pop
Texas pot
dona Juanita
Canadian black
duros
sugar weed
griefo
santa Marta
weed tea
sinse
light stuff
jolly green
carmabis
axle pin
dowel pin
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɪn/
Etymology
From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle. No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).
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