A player who has three sure tricks irrespective of how the cards are played, and is therefore certain to win the pot, is said to have a âcinchâ. In this case there are additional restrictions. If you have a cinch and it is your turn to lead, you must lead your highest trump.
Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: linin(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended.
1 A rare Chinese surname which is also transcribed Lin is èº (pinyin LÃ¬n). 2  Indonesians of Chinese ancestry bearing this surname sometimes spell it as Liem..  Guamanians and Filipinos of Chinese descent with this surname mostly use the Hokkien spelling Lim, as the majority have Fujianese ancestry.