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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
        1
        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
        6
        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
        12
        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...
        13
        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
        15
        There also are a number of subtler visual jokes, like Salman pulling a thumbtack out of his cereal -courtesy of his homicidal nephew.
        Reuters
        16
        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