corkboard
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrkˌbɔrd/
:
corcho
- He tears it out, pins it to the corkboard over his desk.
- pinned to the corkboard
- tacked to the corkboard
- corkboard full of pictures
And he screenshotted it, and he puts it on the corkboard in the engineering room and said these ads suck.
- And he screenshotted it, and he puts it on the corkboard in the engineering room and said these ads suck.
Examples
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He mounted the posters with thumbtacks from an old corkboard that hung in the kitchen.
Fiction book (1997) -
At home, he leaned back in his chair and stared at a Polaroid picture of Jellie pinned to a piece of corkboard above his desk.
Fiction book (1993) -
John has a corkboard set up next to his desk.
Fiction book (2000) -
So print the reviews out and pin these to the office corkboard!
Blog text (24) -
A sign on a corkboard reads, "17 Votes in 69 Days."
Fiction book (1995) -
Interesting that while reading about this episode, I can turn and see a Dilbert strip pinned to my corkboard.
Blog text (26) -
Photos of Eddie and David Elias are up on a corkboard, the beginning of a pyramid.
Fiction book (1992) -
Posters pinned to the corkboard walls warn against feline AIDS and heartworm.
Academic text (2007) -
On the wall outside the social worker's office was a large corkboard filled with pictures of ICN parents departing with their babies, with birth dates, birth weights, and discharge dates written in ink below each photo.
Fiction book (1995) -
She posted the invitation to the party on the corkboard in the kitchen.
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Etymology
The word corkboard comes from cork and board; cork is the soft 'bark' used as a 'stopper' in bottles and it closes around a pin so the pin stays in place. That's why a corkboard is a board you can push pins into to hold notes and photos.