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pin

Definition

  • noun: a thin, pointed piece of stiff wire with a rounded head at one end that is used especially for fastening pieces of cloth
  • noun: a piece of solid material (as wood or metal) used especially for fastening things together or as a support by which one thing may be suspended from another
  • verb: to fasten or attach (something) with a pin
  • verb: to fasten, join, or secure with a pin
  • usually used in plural

Examples

  • The soldiers were 'pinned' down by enemy fire. [=the soldiers were unable to move because they were being shot at by the enemy]

  • She's always 'dropping names'. [=saying the names of famous people she knows to try to impress others]

  • Reporters tried to 'pin' him 'down' on the specific changes he wants to make to the tax laws.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Give me times.. - She still didn't aware that! - There she isjust coming. Oh, look, I know this guys weren't like Harvard or MBA's Robbie the pin head took years to finish highschool. Otter, didn't even graduade. Chaster the creep chinaman, though jitjitsu was in Israel. The smartest from a bunch, (..)
    2013 The Wolf of Wall Street