Short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display.
1 Rosalie was in the study looking for a drawing pin wherewith to affix her illuminated card to the wall.
2 Alan Sugar's sidekick is to be the new Countdown host Age: 67 Appearance: retired newsreader, sitting on a drawing pin .
3 Please don't leave any drawing pins on the floor.
4 The only thing needed to complete this military operation is a set of colour-coded drawing pins .
5 Father presses the drawing pins on my Red Star poster more firmly into the wall with his thumbs.
6 Except, I suppose, some old Russian back in Moscow with the world's biggest map of Afghanistan stuck full of drawing pins .
7 Notice boards peppered with rusty drawing pins but no paper lined the walls, punctuated by steel spikes that had once supported fire extinguishers.
8 In 2008, Berry was known principally for throwing drawing pins (metaphorically, as far as I know) under the tyres of Chelsea Tractors.
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