- 1a short thin piece of stiff wire with a sharp point at one end and a round head at the other, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth when sewing see bobby pin, hairpin, hairpin, linchpin, pins and needles, safety pin jewelry
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2a piece of jewelry with a pin on the back of it, that can be fastened to your clothes synonym brooch
- 3a short thin piece of stiff wire with a sharp point at one end and an item of decoration at the other, worn as jewelry a diamond pin see also tiepin badge
- 4a type of badge that is fastened with a pin at the back He supports the group and wears its pin on his lapel. medical
- 5a piece of steel used to support a bone in your body when it has been broken The pin in her spine will have to be changed as she grows. electrical
- 6one of the metal parts that stick out of an electric plug a 2-pin plug in games
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7a wooden or plastic object that is shaped like a bottle and that players try to knock down in games such as bowling
- 8a stick with a flag on top of it, placed in a hole so that players can see where they are aiming for The ball stopped five feet short of the pin. legs
- 9pins [plural] (informal) a person's legs He's not as quick on his pins as he used to be. on small bomb
- 10a small piece of metal on a hand grenade that stops it from exploding and is pulled out just before the hand grenade is thrown Idioms
for fastening/joining
it was extremely quiet The audience was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.
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