A baker takes me between two fingertips, an irritable crab offers me with its claw, and anyone caught without a stitch of green on St. Patrick's Day is bound to receive me. What am I?
A pinch
Plays on three distinct meanings of 'pinch': a small culinary measurement, a nip from a claw, and the St. Patrick's Day tradition of pinching those not wearing green.
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