pin back

verb

Definitions

  1. To keep at a distance

    • They were certainly the more rounded team and it was unusual, to say the least, to see Chelsea with home advantage being pinned back into their own half.
    • For a solid five minutes or so Rangers pinned Celtic back and probed at them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pin back. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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