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PINS

[ pinz ]

noun

  1. a person of less than 16 years of age placed under the jurisdiction of a juvenile court because of habitual disobedience, intractability, or antisocial but noncriminal behavior.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of PINS1

P(erson) I(n) N(eed of ) S(upervision)

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Example Sentences

“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.

Beyoncé is to women under 40 as tiny flag pins and Ronald Reagan are to conservatives.

My sisters opened a beauty parlor in their bedroom, curling hair with crisscrossed bobby pins and calling it a perm.

Users were hacked by clicking questionable pins, which rapidly spread and resulted in a bootylicious overload.

“It would be a swell joke on tout-le-monde if you & Fife & I spent the summer at Juan-les-Pins,” she wrote.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

The latter-named proportions may in some measure account for "what becomes of the pins?"

Pins were first manufactured here in quantities about 1750, the Ryland family having the honour of introducing the trade.

I'm rather shaky on my pins yet and the chair it must be, if I'm to put myself in connection with that lounge.

Her hair had fallen from its pins and hung in a braid, its length concealed by her position, and making the effect of a queue.

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