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

(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. Substitute
2. Hit by a pinch hitter

Unincorporated community in West Virginia (USA).