"pinfinger" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2017 April 6, Alex Renton, Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class, Weidenfeld & Nicolson",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018 September 14, David Collard, “Put a spell on you”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 6024, News UK",
          "text": "[…]a nimble six-part sequence based on pinfinger, which involves stabbing repeatedly and with increasing rapidity between splayed fingers[…]",
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          "ref": "2018 September 25, Alex London, chapter 2, in Black Wings Beating, Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2020 June 23, Wren Handman, chapter 14, in Wire Wings, The Parliament House",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2021 June 4, Jim Meddick, “Monty”, in The Republican, page B7",
          "text": "JUST WORKING ON A RELATED SKILL… KNIFE GAME, OR PINFINGER…",
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          "text": "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.",
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