Pinning
Pinning noun - A mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin.
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Holding guys up with your gun and pinning them with CQC have been improved—when you hold a guy up you can order him to the ground, or even make him call out to his buddies to lure them into a trap.
Source: Video Game / Metal Gear Solid V - Not only can he trap his opponent by pinning them down with some of his many swords but he can make each sword strike multiple times by making them vibrate.
Source: Blade Spam -
The Super Soba episode had a variant of this, with Ranma pinning a super-strong, somewhat frenzied Akane to the floor of a podium with severed chain links, used to trap each limb.
Source: Chained to a Rock
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