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- noun Plural form of
thumbtack .
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Examples
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Mulder wants to believe that his unique perspective is good for something other than clipping out newspaper stories and posting them on the wall with thumbtacks, which is really lame “crazy guy” shorthand.
Actors sidelined by lame mystery in new “X-Files” movie » Scene-Stealers 2008
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If you answered the Tennessee Titans to all of those, give yourself three flaming thumbtacks, which is what the Titans 'confusing logo has been comically dubbed.
SI.com 2008
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Unlike keeping things on your desk where things may or may not fall off/behind/under/into Narnia, magnets and thumbtacks keep your papers in place.
Hack College: How To Keep Your Dorm Room Organized Hack College 2010
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Use thumbtacks instead of push pins, and put the posters out of their reach.
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Use thumbtacks instead of push pins, and put the posters out of their reach.
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They were held in place by special (and to me, odd and wonderful) fasteners like decorative thumbtacks or upholstery tacks, but with a spiral nail that you kind of twisted and screwed in place, if that makes sense.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thursday Night Open Thread 2010
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(You can add text, tape and thumbtacks for special effect.)
With smartphone apps, design assistance is always at hand Terri Sapienza 2010
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Unlike keeping things on your desk where things may or may not fall off/behind/under/into Narnia, magnets and thumbtacks keep your papers in place.
Hack College: How To Keep Your Dorm Room Organized Hack College 2010
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(You can add text, tape and thumbtacks for special effect.)
With smartphone apps, design assistance is always at hand Terri Sapienza 2010
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A new video from American Rights at Work shows how Uncle Sam has wrapped his tyrannical hands around the throats of our nation's job creators and affixed his despotic thumbtacks to our freedom-loving break rooms' cork boards.
HUFFPOST HILL - GOP Campaigns Are Total Sausage-Fests Eliot Nelson 2011
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