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Fastening device
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thumbtack
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tack with a broad, flat head which may be driven by pressure from the thumb, 1884, from thumb (n.) + tack (n.1).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 vb. (context transitive English) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board [syn: drawing pin , pushpin ] v. fasten with thumbtacks; "The teacher thumbtacked the notice on the bulletin board"
Usage examples of thumbtack.
From time to time the old man would glance up at a printed page stuck to a corkboard with a thumbtack, but generally he kept his face bent to the parchment.
That first square of fabric, which Mayadonna Bey had displayed before the council, was the one that Deccan Blendish had thumbtacked to his wall.
He removed the pair of thumbtacks to the right of the bolt, and the length of fishline which had passed over them, from the head of the bolt, back through the crack between door and doorframe.
Colorful posters thumbtacked to the pressboard walls expressed such sentiments as Have You Hugged A Seal Today?
A wet patch the size of a dime glistens on her mound, and if you take a silky buttock in each hand, lift her off the seat, and snuff your face up close, you only whiff the bittiest thumbtack of tamarindo jerky, just a pin-prick.
There were neatly typed cards thumbtacked to the shelves, telling her what was in the cartons.
That was when I ran into Mankiewicz, picking a handful of thumbtacked messages off the bulletin board outside the doors.
She walked over to the open door, closed it and showed him a map thumbtacked to the wall.
The inside was bare and bright as a gymnasium, containing a dozen mismatched tables with orange oilcloth thumbtacked onto them.
Thumbtacked to the bulletin board in the gazebo was a circular that advised him to call the police in case anyone expressed interest in buying or selling clarinet parts.
So I tore off the sheet of the magazine section I had been reading from, with the picture of the Marquis of Clivers in the center, fastened it to the corkboard with a couple of thumbtacks, gathered up the darts, stood off fifteen feet, and let fly.
Then he took off the wall the big spidery black sketch of the TV tower that was almost entirely bright fluorescent red background and securely wedged and thumbtacked it, red side out, in the open casement window, using drawing pins.
The three of them had been shopping, and Ellita had made curtains from red crepe paper and tacked them above the window with thumbtacks.
The girls had arranged two large crepe paper bows, and these bows had been thumbtacked to the gray walls.
A vase of mock orange sat on her desk, and her cork board was a litter of thumbtacked crayon drawings.