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thumbtack

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thumbtack
chiefly US and Canadian a short tack with a broad smooth head for fastening papers to a drawing board, etc.


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The hour-long DVD (Special Director's Cut), featuring wrestlers such as Little Justice, The Midget Prosecutor, Madd Mexx The Immigration Sensation and Little Kato, involves using things like thumbtacks, broken bottles and staple guns in their hand-to-hand combat.
A bizarre loophole in state law allowed, on this very day, all gravel and thumbtack companies the right to dump their surplus products onto city streets rather than face high storage fees.
I'd also recently watched the movie 13, in which a naive seventh-grader descends into a horrific maelstrom of deviant behavior that begins when she pierces her own navel with a thumbtack.
 
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