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pin

1. n. someone’s leg. (Usually plural.) Stand up on your pins and speak your mind.

2. n. an important criminal leader. (From kingpin.) The mob’s getting careless. The cops think they caught the pin this time.

See:

• as straight as a die
• be as clean as a whistle
• be on pins and needles
• bright as a new pin
• could hear a pin drop
• for two pins
• get ears pinned back
• have pins and needles
• hear a pin drop, can
• in merry pin
• neat as a new pin
• neat as a pin
• not care two pins (about something)
• not give two pins (about something)
• on pins and needles
• pin
• pin (one's) heart on (one's) sleeve
• pin (one's) heart to (one's) sleeve
• pin against
• pin back
• pin back ears
• pin beneath
• pin down
• pin ears back
• pin faith on
• pin hopes on
• pin money
• pin on
• pin one's hopes on
• pin someone’s ears back
• pin someone's ears back
• pin to
• pin under
• pin up on
• pinned
• pins and needles
• policy of pin pricks
• so quiet you could hear a pin drop
• so still you could hear a pin drop
• wear one's heart on one's sleeve
• You could have heard a pin drop