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1. Sounding as if the nose were pinched
   - adenoidal, nasal
    
2. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   "small pinched faces"
   - bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted
    
3. Not having enough money to pay for necessities
   - hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, badly-off
    
4. As if squeezed uncomfortably tight
   "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

1. Squeeze tightly between the fingers
   "He pinched her behind"
   - squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch
    
2. Make ridges into by pinching together
   - crimp
    
3. [Brit] Make off with belongings of others
   - pilfer, cabbage, purloin, abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble [Brit], lift, nick [Brit]
    
4. Cut the top off
   - top
    
5. Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
   "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"
   - vellicate

See also: constricted, high, high-pitched, lean, poor, thin

Type of: clip, crop, cut back, dress, fold, fold up, grip, irritate, lop, prune, snip, steal, trim, turn up

Encyclopedia: Pinch Pinch, WV Pinch, West Virginia