1. Substitute
2. Hit by a pinch hitter

Množina: Pinches

Unincorporated community in West Virginia (USA).

Množina: pinches

(Irregular plural: pinches).
1. A painful or straitened circumstance.
2. A squeeze with the fingers; SYN. tweak.
3. An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed.

1. Compress, squeeze
2. To be miserly or closefisted
3. To press painfully
4. Narrow, taper
5. To squeeze tightly between the fingers; SYN. vellicate, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch.
6. To sail too close to the wind

Množina: pinch bars

A lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels.
A bar similar in form and use to a crowbar and sometimes having an end adapted for pulling spikes or inserting under a heavy wheel that is to be rolled

Množina: pinch cocks

Množina: pinch hits

A hit made by a pinch hitter.

Množina: pinch hitters

(Baseball or softball) A substitute for the regular batter.

To practice strict economy

Množina: pinch rollers

A small cylindrical pulley that presses magnetic tape against the drive’s capstan to move the tape over the tape machine’s heads. See also capstan.

1. To act or serve in place of another
2. To bat in the place of another player especially when a hit is particularly needed

Množina: pinch-offs

Množina: pinch-roller plotters

A type of plotter, intermediate between drum and flatbed types, that uses hard rubber or metal wheels to hold the paper against the main roller. See also plotter. Compare drum plotter, flatbed plotter.