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Meanings of thumbtack in English

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A nail with a large head.

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Usage of thumbtack in English
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He removed a thumbtack with his nail and handed me a list.
Fatal Voyage
2
A World Wildlife Fund calendar hung from a thumbtack on one wall.
Bones Are Forever
3
The pale morning star was a white thumbtack on a blueboard behind them.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
4
Sissy took out the thumbtack and turned the postcard over.
Death Mask
5
They said your dick looked like a thumbtack.
Rain gods
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The paper had a thumbtack hole, and he suspected it had come from a bulletin board.
Death du Jour
7
So I opened the door again, got out a piece of paper and a thumbtack, and wrote:
Storm front
8
They looked messy with just one thumbtack.
The new yorker
9
Roger drew from his pocket a square of cardboard and affixed it to the board with a thumbtack.
The Haunted Bookshop
10
She'd knot one end, fasten the other to a wall with a thumbtack, watch them try to fly.
Dangerous Women
11
When he was at last nestled upon his perch, he looked like an eggplant balanced atop a thumbtack.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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A thumbtack of pain shot into my right calf, then my left, and a spot close to my groin.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
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Hang it with a thumbtack or bit of tape, or affix it in any other manner that seems right to you.
Witch School's First Degree
14
Here he posted, with a thumbtack, a piece of cardboard on which was written, in his Mediterranean handwriting the special order for the day:
Mildred Pierce
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There also are a number of subtler visual jokes, like Salman pulling a thumbtack out of his cereal -courtesy of his homicidal nephew.
Reuters
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He punched a thumbtack through the corner of my dollar, pulled a silver dollar out of the cash register, and wrapped my dollar around it.
Delta girls
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Translations for thumbtack
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Thumbtack through the time