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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The 3X5 cards were "lent" to the team leaders during set-up and break-down, but otherwise kept thumbtacked to the bulletin board in the wrestling room. They are framed on walls, displayed in classrooms, magnetted to refrigerators, and thumbtacked in children's rooms. CIRCA 1946: As an arty Manhattan teenager, I thumbtacked onto my bedroom walls a row of color reproductions from the Museum of Modern Art, a precocious declaration of Modernity. |
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