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Later, word got around that still another presidential shot had pinked the pate of a Secret Service agent standing guard in the rough.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even though Annie's fingers had pinked, or ruched, or hemmed, or whatever you do to 'em, they palled upon me.

From Options by Henry, O.

For, as the devil would have it, the shoulder he laid hold of was the one Goguelat had pinked.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Sir Henry Willoughby confessed to me that the fellow had pinked him twenty times in a moonlit, roadside attack, then disarmed him with a careless laugh and walked off, taking nothing with him.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

He could throw a main, too, as well as his elders; had pinked his man, in a row at Madam King's in the Piazza; and was much respected at the Roundhouse.

From Catherine: a Story by Thackeray, William Makepeace