Thumbtack

Definitions: Thumbtack

Thumbtack

Noun

1. A tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board.

Verb

1. Fasten with thumbtacks; "The teacher thumbtacked the notice on the bulletin board".

Date "thumbtack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

Synonyms: Thumbtack

Synonyms: drawing pin (n), pushpin (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thumbtack

Specialty definitions using "thumbtack": postin' like a thumbtack. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The animated thumbtack railroad dollhouse & all-around surprise book, evening edition (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "thumbtack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pineskë (drawing pin). (various references)

Arabic		‏المسيمر الإبهامي, ‏دبوس طبعة. (various references)

Chinese		摁釘兒 . (various references)

Czech		napínáèek (drawing pin, tack). (various references)

Farsi		پونززدن به , پونز (Tack), باپونزمحکم کردن . (various references)

French		punaise (thumb tack). (various references)

German		Reißzwecke (drawing pin, pushpin, tack, thumb tack). (various references)

Greek		καρφάκι εμπηγομένον με τον δάκτυλο, πινέζα (drawing pin, tack). (various references)

Hebrew		נעץ (drawing pin, stud, tack, tin tack). (various references)

Hungarian		rajzszeg (drawing pin, push-pin, tack, tin tack), rajzszög (drawing pin). (various references)

Italian		puntina (drawing pin, needle, pin, stylus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鋲 (hobnail, rivet, tack). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		びょう (hobnail, rivet, second, tack). (various references)

Pig Latin		umbtackthay

Portuguese		percevejo (barnacle, bedbug, bug, chinch). (various references)

Russian		чертежная кнопка (thumb-tack). (various references)

Spanish		la chinche, chinche (bedbug, bug, drawing pin). (various references)

Swedish		häftstift (drawing pin, drawing-pin, tack). (various references)

Turkish		resim çivisi (drawing pin), raptiye (clip, drawing pin, fastener, paper clip, pin, staple, tack). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thumbtack": thumbtacked, thumbtacking, thumbtacks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thumbtack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trumbach. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-k-m-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: hackbut.
	-3 letters: chabuk.
	-4 letters: amuck, batch, battu, butch, match, mutch, thack, thumb.
	-5 letters: abut, bach, back, baht, bath, batt, bhut, buck, butt, cham, chat, chub, chum, habu, hack, haut, huck, khat, mach, mack, math, matt, maut, much, muck, mutt, tabu, tach, tack, tact, taut, that, tuba, tuck.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-k-m-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: thumbtacks.
	+2 letters: thumbtacked.
	+3 letters: thumbtacking.
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