A person or thing that pinches, as in squeezing; e.g. a miser or penny pincher.
A person or thing that pinches, as in stealing; e.g. a thief or kleptomaniac.
A pinching miser; a niggard.
To be frugal.
To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
To make too small or short.
Short; scanty; curtailed.