Vocabulary

pidgin English

fixed-gear bicycle

pizzicato

pickoff play

ice axe

piccolo

pitchout

pitching machine

pitting; entering the pits; (making a) pit stop

Pithecanthropus erectus

pipette

pivot

Puritan

Pulitzer (as in Pulitzer Prize)

puree

pure malt

purist

pyramid selling

piri (Korean double reed instrument)

periodic

pyrine

pilling

Pilgrim Fathers (early Puritan settlers in North America)

pile; stilt; column; pillar; pier

to come (home) to one; to click; to ring a bell; to understand at once; to know intuitively; to get (a joke or explanation)

taking a cut (of someone else's money); taking a rake-off; pocketing a kickback; skimming (a percentage of the profits, proceeds, etc.)

pinup

pin curl

pinky; little finger

pinking

pink-collar (i.e. service-industry worker)

nightclub with hostesses; risqué bar; dubious nightclub

pink noise

erotic atmosphere

pink lady (cocktail)

pin tuck

pinch runner

to be out of focus

pinup girl

pinhole