to hold someone firmly on the ground or on a surface so that they cannot move. He pinned me down on the bed and tickled me.
phrasal verb. If you pin someone down, you force them to make a decision or to tell you what their decision is, when they have been trying to avoid doing this.
Pinning ceremonies are ritualistic celebrations held within the Greek community where a fraternity member gives his fraternity pin to a woman in a sorority, symbolizing that he values his girlfriend more than his house.
In the sport of wrestling, when one opponent forces both shoulders of the other wrestler onto the mat, it is known as "pinning", and constitutes a win. If he pinned her down on the bed, he forced her on her back, and prevented her from moving.
get pinned in American English
a. ( of a young woman) to receive a male student's fraternity pin as a symbol of his affection and fidelity, usually symbolizing that the couple is going steady or plans to become engaged.
The other person won't receive any notification if you pin their conversation. You can pin and unpin chats without anyone finding out.
A lot of people wonder whether the host or the person whose video you pin will know? To clear the air once and for all, neither the host nor the person who you pinned will ever know about it. There's no reason as pinning only affects your local view in Zoom. It does not even affect cloud recordings.
Definitions of pinning. a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin.
To shove someone or something up against something else and forcefully hold them or it in place. A noun or pronoun is used between "pin" and "to." The car slammed into the tree and pinned it to the side of the building. The bully pinned me to the wall, demanding I give him my lunch money. See also: pin, to.
verb. If someone pins you to something, they press you against a surface so that you cannot move. I pinned him against the wall. [ VERB noun adverb/preposition]
2 to understand something clearly or be able to describe it exactlyhard/difficult to pin down The flavour was hard to pin down.
Pinning conversations helps ensure that you don't miss the Chats and Snaps that matter to you most. For example, you might want to pin your family or best friend's conversation, so that every new post appears at the very top of your Friends screen.
When a Snapchat+ subscriber sets a friend as their “#1 Best Friend,” this user will be pinned to the top of the their friends list so they're easier to access later on.
What does a pin mean on Snapchat. Snapchat's pin feature allows users to keep the people they interact with the most, right at the top of their chats. Normally, when you interact with a person, Snapchat moves that person's chat to the top of the list.
View the boards your Pins have been saved to: Tap See all at the bottom of the page, below Saved to these boards. Note: if your Pins have been saved to a secret board, you will not see the board details here.
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