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  • 21pinch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stress, strain, pressure, emergency, difficulty, plight, predicament; pinching, nip; slang, arrest. See circumstance, restraint. v. nip, compress, tighten, squeeze; chill, bite, hurt. See contraction …

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  • 22pinch — vb, n (to make) an arrest. An underworld and police term on both sides of the Atlan tic …

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  • 23make off with — they made off with all the wedding gifts Syn: take, steal, purloin, pilfer, abscond with, run away/off with, carry off, snatch; kidnap, abduct; informal walk away/off with, swipe, filch, nab, lift, liberate , borrow , snitch, pinch; …

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  • 24Reversed field pinch — A reversed field pinch (RFP) is a device used to produce and contain near thermonuclear plasmas. It is a toroidal pinch which uses a unique magnetic field configuration as a scheme to magnetically confine a plasma, primarily to study magnetic… …

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  • 25Frank Pinch — (February 24, 1891 mdash; October 8, 1961) was an English cricketer. He was a right handed batsman and a right arm medium pace bowler who played for Glamorgan. He was born in Bodmin and died in Ashford, Kent.Pinch began playing club cricket for… …

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  • 26Adam and Eve and Pinch Me — infobox Book | name = Adam and Eve and Pinch Me title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Ruth Rendell cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Crime novel publisher = Hutchinson… …

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  • 27have to pinch yourself — mainly spoken phrase used for saying that you do not believe that something good that is happening to you is real I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Thesaurus: ways of saying that you do not believe somethingsynonym Main entry …

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  • 28W Pinch — Infobox animanga/Header name = W Pinch caption = Cover of volume 4 ja name = Wピンチ ja name trans = genre = Infobox animanga/Manga title = author = Ryou Azuki publisher = flagicon|Japan Shueisha demographic = Shōjo magazine = Ribon first = January… …

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  • 29have to pinch yourself — mainly spoken used for saying that you do not believe that something good that is happening to you is real I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn t dreaming …

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  • 30Oobi (TV series) — Created by Josh Selig Country of origin United States Language(s) English No. of seasons …

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