thumbtack
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A brass thumbtack
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
thumbtack (plural thumbtacks)
- (Canada, US) A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.
- Synonym: (British) drawing pin
- Coordinate term: pushpin
- 2016 June 10, BlocBoy JB (lyrics and music), “No Chorus, Pt. 5”, in Who Am I, 1:20–1:27:
- You say that I'm broke my nigga, how is that?
Bitch I'm stickin to this paper like a thumbtack
Translations
nail-like tack
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Verb
thumbtack (third-person singular simple present thumbtacks, present participle thumbtacking, simple past and past participle thumbtacked)
- (transitive) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.
- 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
- On the particle-board partition that separated his cubicle from the next, Paul had thumbtacked things that might inspire him […]
Translations
to attach something with a thumbtack
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Further reading
drawing pin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “thumbtack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
