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say it: PIN-ing
pinning is a noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈpɪnɪŋ/ — PIN-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
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
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pinning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.