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

📑 Synonyms: tweak

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

To squeeze between two objects.

Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.

To steal, usually something inconsequential.

📑 Synonyms: crib purloin Thesaurus:steal

To arrest or capture.

📑 Synonyms: bust nick Thesaurus:capture

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

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

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

To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

(of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

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

(obsolete) To complain or find fault.

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

A close compression of anything with the fingers.

(small amount)A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

📑 Synonyms: smidgen Thesaurus:modicum

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.

📑 Synonyms: crowbar jimmy nail bar

An organic herbal smoke additive.

(physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.

(hourglass) The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

(slang) An arrest.

📑 Synonyms: bust collar

(NZ) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.

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