pinkie-swear

present singular third person pinkie-swears · participle present pinkie-swearing · past pinkie-swore · participle past pinkie-sworn

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of pinky swear.

   On his visit to Arizona earlier this month, [Ryan] Williams said the Cardinals all but pinkie-swore they would draft him at pick No. 38, despite decent depth at his position.

   2011 April 29, Greg Bishop, “As League Starts and Stops, Draft Picks Keep Coming”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2011

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   The Giants pinkie-swear they were not upset that the Bucs drafted RB Doug Martin one spot ahead of them in the 2012 draft, because David Wilson was rated higher on their board.

   2013 September 9, Steve Serby, Bart Hubbuch, “Post-game thoughts: Week 1 on Stupid Island”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2013

   Mark Cuban says he is so over DeAndre Jordan. Theirs was a four-day courtship that was not a foundation for anything, including heartbreak. They were not lifelong friends, they never pinkie-swore to anything, there was no trust to be broken.

   2015 November 14, Ben Bolch, “Mavericks not the same team they would have been with DeAndre Jordan”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2015

   Sabrina Siddiqui reports from the ethanol-subsidied cornfields of Iowa, where freshman senator Joni Ernst stumped for Marco Rubio at a midday event - but whatever you do, don’t mistake it for an endorsement: [image caption:] "She made me pinkie-swear that this wasn’t an endorsement.”

   2016 January 25, Tom McCarthy, “Trump leads in Iowa while Democrats prepare for crucial forum – live updates”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2016

   The first man who stands to ask a question will tell [Elizabeth] Warren that she met his daughter back when she ran for the Senate in 2012, and that she pinkie-swore to that little girl that she could become a senator one day too.

   2018 July 22, Rebecca Traister, “Leader of the Persistence”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2018