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Answer for the clue "On college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin ", 7 letters:
pinning

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See pin

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A ceremony in which a pin badge is given. vb. (present participle of pin English)

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Pinning is a technique used when assembling large or heavy model kits (such as metal wargaming miniatures ) that involves drilling a hole in two pieces of the model to be joined, and using a "pin" to strengthen the bond when they are glued. Pinning is a ...

Usage examples of pinning.

One of his attendants leaped upon a balustrade and swooped down on Mongaku, pinning his arms to his sides.

The cop on duty grabbed him from behind, pinning one arm behind him with a come-along grip, and pressing a finger into the mandibular nerve behind his jaw.

Pinning a misbehaving user into the corner of the screen can be a very effective attention-getter.

The part assigned to the British contingents under General Milne, which had taken over the front from the Vardar eastwards past Doiran and down the Struma to the sea, was the somewhat thankless one of pinning the Bulgars to that sector and preventing them from reinforcing the threatened line in the west.

She checked the capacious pockets of the talma, settled it over her shoulders, and twisted her long brown hair into a knot at the nape of her neck, pinning it in place.

Maverk was straddling him, pinning him down, while Darvk helped Tenia calm the horse and tie it to a nearby tree.

Instead, he lurched forward and grabbed Trays, pinning his arms and standing too close for him to use his legs again.

But it was Lafayette, with his innate genius for political theater, who crowned the moment by embracing a noncommissioned officer of the bodyguard and pinning a tricolor cockade on his hat.

The weapon caught Krujj in the right hand, the unringed hand, pinning it to the wall.

David Starr pulled him back, pinning him against the unseeable table top.

Ciara pivoted to face her sister, pinning Aisling in her sharp blue gaze.

In short, the Alamo project on which America was pinning its hopes for recovery was for Russia, and for communism as well, the promise of salvation.

He always did it, in these spells, and the word was like a skewer pinning her to the beaverboard among the other butterflies of his collection.

Jessan, as the two ConSecs pinning Beka against the wall brought her arms up higher between her shoulder blades.

Now we were trapped with the enraged monsters pinning Chron and me against the cliff wall.