1a thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other, used for fastening pieces of cloth, paper, etc..
a small brooch or badge:a gold and diamond lapel pin
Medicine a steel rod used to join the ends of fractured bones while they heal.
a metal peg that holds down the activating lever of a hand grenade, preventing its explosion.
a hairpin.
Music a peg round which one string of a musical instrument is fastened.
2a metal projection from a plug or an integrated circuit which makes an electrical connection with a socket or another part of a circuit: [as modifier, in combination]:a three-pin plug
3 Golf a stick with a flag placed in a hole to mark its position.
a skittle in bowling.
4 (pins) informal a person’s legs:she was very nimble on her pins
5 Chess an attack on a piece or pawn which is thereby pinned.
6British historical a half-firkin cask for beer.
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1attach or fasten with a pin or pins:he pinned the badge on to his lapelher hair was pinned back
2hold (someone) firmly in a specified position so they are unable to move:she was standing pinned against the doorRichards pinned him down until the police arrived
3 [with object] Chess hinder or prevent (a piece or pawn) from moving because of the danger to a more valuable piece standing behind it along the line of an attack:the black rook on e4 is pinned
(as) clean (or neat) as a new pin
extremely clean or neat.
for two pins I'd (or he'd, she'd, etc.) ——
British used to convey strong temptation to do something, typically from annoyance or irritation:for two pins I’d have tipped that bowl and all its contents over her
be able to hear a pin drop
used to describe absolute silence or stillness:there was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop
