Tom Pinch and Ruth Pinch, characters in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens.

a Pinch (ice hockey), is when a defenseman sneaks in closer to the opposing goal to add extra firepower deep in the offensive zone in ice hockey

Pinch a brand of Scotch whisky.

a pinch is a point of maximum constraint or minimum flow in various chemical engineering processes.

Trevor Pinch (born 1953), British sociologist at Cornell University

Pinch, West Virginia

John Pinch the elder (1770–1827) and younger (1796–1849), British architects in Bath

Pinch (drummer), British musician, current drummer of punk band The Damned

a Pinch (cooking) is a very small amount of an ingredient, typically salt or a spice.

a Pinch (plasma physics) is compression of a plasma filament by magnetic forces;

Pinch (magnetic fusion) is a device which uses this effect for magnetic fusion energy; the Z-pinch is a special case of such a device.

Pinch temperature is the key point in a process when using pinch analysis techniques to minimise energy use.

Pinched, a 1917 film starring Harold Lloyd