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  • noun Plural form of stickpin.

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Examples

  • (Don't miss his anecdote about hanging a map behind his desk with randomly inserted stickpins.)

    The Money Primary - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

  • We could issue broccoli stickpins to vegetarians, bunny heads in profile to animal-rights activists.

    Come, Let Me Offend You 2008

  • The Museum of Financial History is selling bear stickpins for $60.

    We’re history « BuzzMachine 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • There was a diamond stickpin stuck in a fancy tie, and undertakers didn't wear diamond stickpins.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • There was a diamond stickpin stuck in a fancy tie, and undertakers didn't wear diamond stickpins.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • 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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