Thumbtacks

Word THUMBTACKS
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Thumbtacks"

What do we mean by thumbtacks?

A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.

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The word "thumbtacks" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(You can add text, tape and thumbtacks for special effect.) ❋ Terri Sapienza (2010)

Use thumbtacks instead of push pins, and put the posters out of their reach. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead of attaching pictures to a wall with tape, thumbtacks, or something that will damage them when you decide to put other ones up, attach binder clips to the wall with small, low-damage nails. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Btw, this does not bode well for upcoming criminal investigation by this AG's office -- likely to take sledgehammers to thumbtacks the next few times. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The "dings" are MINOR -- holes in the corners from thumbtacks and creases from its original folding, but it has been stored rolled and will be shipped rolled. ❋ P_n_elrod (2009)

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. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

Navarrete's arc from little boy who put thumbtacks on teachers 'chairs to leader of a pitiless gang that beheaded its victims goes some way to explaining the moral and social anarchy at the heart of the so-called war on drugs. ❋ Rory Carroll In Ciudad Juárez (2010)

A fellow pro-wrestler buddy of mine, who liked to dabble in "hard-core" matches barbed wire, thumbtacks, etc., used to tell me: "Fire doesn't know how to 'work.'" ❋ Steve Perry (2010)

At 8:50 Grandma showed up with the pink ribbon and the thumbtacks like I had asked her to. ❋ LISA SCHROEDER (2010)

So I went out there against Mick Foley at WrestleMania 22 and I went through a flaming table and I landed on thumbtacks and I made sure they knew that I was there and I belonged in the main event. ❋ Kevin Sullivan (2010)

Bathing suits come with their own arsenal of problems, the least of which is nearly every woman on the planet, with the exception of preschoolers and Brooklyn Decker, would rather roll around in thumbtacks and then jump into a pool filled with lemon juice than try them on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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