pinning

1. 1.

   a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin

   Broaderpromise

Other forms of pinning

plural

pinnings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pinning

What does pinning mean?

pinning means "a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin".

How many syllables are in pinning?

pinning has 2 syllables: pin-ning. The stress falls on "pin". In IPA it is /ˈpɪnɪŋ/.

Is pinning a common word?

pinning is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.