Pins and Traps

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Traps and pins are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Traps" instead a verb "Pins".

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Pins and traps are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pins" instead a verb "Traps".

Played straight then subverted in Hayate × Blade, when Meiko traps Yukari in an armlock and pins her to the ground, forcing her to watch as their respective partners duke it out.

Source: I Have You Now, My Pretty
NetHack has bear traps which merely pins down you (or a monster) until it gets pried open.

Source: Bear Trap
A variant of this occurs in many FPSes with nonviolent options, allowing the player to use multitools and bobby pins to bypass locks and cigarettes to reveal hidden laser traps.

Source: Video Game Tools

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