pinhooking
/ˈpɪnhʊkɪŋ/originally US regional (south Midland ). Now chiefly Horse Racing
noun
The practice of buying livestock cheaply (now especially a very young racehorse) in the expectation of selling it on later at a profit.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Salisbury (Maryland) Times. From pinhook + -ing.
- stick one (or it) on
- stick one's neck out
- stick (or poke) one's bib in
- stick out
- stick out a mile
- stick out for
- stick out like a sore thumb
- stickpin
- sticks and stones may break my bones but names (or words) will never hurt me
- stickseed
- stick shift
- stick someone/thing up
- stick something on
- stick to
- stick together
- stick-to-it-iveness
- stick to one's guns
- stick to one's ribs
- stick to the (or one's) knitting
- stickum
- stick-up
- stick up for
- stickweed
- stick with
- sticky