If someone's face is pinched, it looks thin and pale, usually because they are ill or old. Her face was pinched and drawn. a pinched face looks thin and unhealthy, for example because the person is ill, cold, or tired
When a racecar on the outside cuts-off a car on the inside while going down into the turn, causing the car on the inside to slow down, to avoid an accident, and fall in behind
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"