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- noun Plural form of
stickpin .
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Examples
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(Don't miss his anecdote about hanging a map behind his desk with randomly inserted stickpins.)
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We could issue broccoli stickpins to vegetarians, bunny heads in profile to animal-rights activists.
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The Museum of Financial History is selling bear stickpins for $60.
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He “loved his home and his family very much,” related twenty-one-year-old widow Caroline Katter Engel of the man who played the violin beautifully “by ear,” owned a typewriter and an Edison phonograph, and wore stickpins and cuff links.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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He “loved his home and his family very much,” related twenty-one-year-old widow Caroline Katter Engel of the man who played the violin beautifully “by ear,” owned a typewriter and an Edison phonograph, and wore stickpins and cuff links.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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He “loved his home and his family very much,” related twenty-one-year-old widow Caroline Katter Engel of the man who played the violin beautifully “by ear,” owned a typewriter and an Edison phonograph, and wore stickpins and cuff links.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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He “loved his home and his family very much,” related twenty-one-year-old widow Caroline Katter Engel of the man who played the violin beautifully “by ear,” owned a typewriter and an Edison phonograph, and wore stickpins and cuff links.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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There was a diamond stickpin stuck in a fancy tie, and undertakers didn't wear diamond stickpins.
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There was a diamond stickpin stuck in a fancy tie, and undertakers didn't wear diamond stickpins.
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The mathematical and theoretical side of the combine, fair and dark, looked sober and professional; Jason and Jeremy, in their stickpins and fancy weskits, seemed bright and a little dudish standing next to them in the flickering atmosphere of gaslight and crystal.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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