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Tiny metal needs that hold civilization, and the occasional grenade, together
means Slender pointed pieces of metal used to fasten, secure, or hold things in place — and, in slang, the legs you stand on.
from From Old English 'pinn,' meaning a peg or bolt, likely borrowed from Latin 'pinna' (a feather, point, or pinnacle). The sense traveled from wooden pegs to the fine metal fasteners we know today as the craft of pin-making sharpened over the centuries. The slang 'pins' for legs is a much later, jauntier offshoot — thin and supporting, like the things themselves.
- hand grenade
- Pulling the pin doesn't arm it; the lever does
- bowling
- Each pin weighs roughly three and a half pounds
- safety pin
- Patented in 1849 to settle a debt
- map marker
- Pinning locations predates digital maps by centuries
- voodoo myth
- Pin-stuffed dolls are mostly Hollywood, not Haitian tradition
for instance
bowlmor lanes new york — historic bowling alley opened 1938, 44 lanes in manhattan
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