Pinch
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential. To arrest or capture.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape. An organic herbal smoke additive.
Example sentence: I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
Crimp
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.To style hair into a crimp.To joining the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.A coal broker. [Provincial England]One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.A game at cards.