Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tacklike pin with a large head that is easily inserted into a wall or board.
- noun A game played by children with pins.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A children's play in which pins are pushed alternately. Also
put-pin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A child's game played with pins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thumbtack - noun archaic An old
children 'sgame wherepins are placed on atable and eachplayer tries to push his pin so as to cross the other's.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lately I keep finding myself moving the pushpin from the “pure evil” quadrant up towards the “hopelessly incompetent” quadrant.
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It would be nice if the software permitted a "pushpin" feature to keep the comments thread displayed after editing / posting.
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Ivan covered this found coffee-table with a pushpin Super Mario mosaic (protected by plexiglass) and painted and decorated the legs to match.
Boing Boing 2009
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He also quotes The Hartford Courant which said that figuring him out was “like trying to stick a pushpin in a cyclone.”
Bush's heavy reading Steven E. Levingston 2010
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A suggestion from a friend in Thailand or a new picture in National Geographic would always mean a new pushpin on the map, and the red line would need to be restrung.
Peter Winter: The Great Ride Forward: Motorcycling Southeast Asia Peter Winter 2011
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Apparently pushpin mosaics are unexpectedly hard on the thumbs.
Boing Boing 2009
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She noticed a tiny hole near the top, the perforation a pushpin or thumbtack would make?
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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She noticed a tiny hole near the top, the perforation a pushpin or thumbtack would make?
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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This is just another case where you have to ponder where to place the pushpin on the Evil/Stupid graph.
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She noticed a tiny hole near the top, the perforation a pushpin or thumbtack would make?
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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