Pinned
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In the 60s, a girl would get pinned by a guy when he made her his girlfriend. Ya know, after many dates, and the guy was ready to call her his girlfriend, he would formalize it by putting a silvery pin on her. So getting pinned means u are now taken. Watch the Dick Van Dyke version of Bye Bye Birdie, especially the song The Telephone Hour. They use the term pinned quite a lot.
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Telltale sign of Opiate intoxication; Large doses of Heroin etc cause the users pupils to shrink to tiny pinpoints - which to the practised eye , a drugs worker say , easily discredit a junkies protestations of sobriety
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To hold somebody immobile.
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In basketball, to get ones shot blocked and pressed against the backboard at the same time by an opposing defender.
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The feeling you have when you have crossed the having fun phase of doing cocaine into the a new source of natural energy phase of it. May also be used to describe the feeling obtained from speed, but with speed, the having fun phase is skipped.
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To hit a cars top speed while driving.
Comes from driving a vehicle so fast that the needle on the speedometer hits the pin after going around the dial and off the scale. -
To be restrained, or held down, so one cannot escape.
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Pinned-Going really fast, Hooning!
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