pinfinger en · NOUN
Etymology
From pin + finger.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Synonym of knife game.
She pretends she isn’t checking the time on the stopwatch hanging from her belt, takes out a knife and plays a bastard version of pinfinger between her feet, reveling in the way her balance trembles as she shifts from right to left.
2020 June 23, Wren Handman, chapter 14, in Wire Wings, The Parliament House, →ISBN:Lambert also uncovers some nasty quasi-formal physical punishments dealt out by prefects to younger boys: whipping with a piece of rope dipped in brine at one school, fixed numbers of punches to the face for different crimes, and a Russian roulette game called pinfinger, which involved stabbing at the fingers with a geometry compass.
2017 April 6, Alex Renton, Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN:[…]a nimble six-part sequence based on pinfinger, which involves stabbing repeatedly and with increasing rapidity between splayed fingers[…]
2018 September 14, David Collard, “Put a spell on you”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 6024, News UK:JUST WORKING ON A RELATED SKILL… KNIFE GAME, OR PINFINGER…
2021 June 4, Jim Meddick, “Monty”, in The Republican, page B7:He had scars on all his fingers from where their father missed whenever he played a drunken game of pinfinger using Brysen’s spread hand pressed against the table.
2018 September 25, Alex London, chapter 2, in Black Wings Beating, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN: