Possible Clues:

• Type of card to pinch?
• Use, as a credit card
• Process (credit card); steal (colloq.)
• Hit with swinging blow, or slangily steal
• Pass (card through reader); wild hit
• See if a purchase can be charged
• Nick means to lash out
• Slap Nick
• Put (card) through reader; hit
• Paid screws (anag) - plastic