to thumbtack

Examples

• All

• I rounded out this lip so you can see I'm just going to temporarily use thumbtacks to keep the fairy lights in place.

• Koop walked past him, down a hallway where fifty musclemen stared down from curling Polaroids thumbtacked to the paneling, into the men's locker room.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Yes, that is throwing some, throwing some thumbtacks on the track at the last minute.

• I just thought you'd want to protect them instead of thumbtacking them.

  On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)

• One by one, they approached blindfolded and tried to pin the tail (actually, thumbtack the tail) in the right place.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Boehm thumbtacked to a bulletin board inside Park Place at Newtown School.

  Blog text (33)

• Dozens of unmounted photographs were thumbtacked to the walls, curled by the July humidity.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Still filled with all the cherished flotsam of a schoolgirl... posters thumbtacked to the walls, china ornaments, a tape player, a guitar with a broken string.

  Fiction book (1990)

• One afternoon, Donna Rae, who knew nothing of my list or my ambition, thumbtacked white bedsheets over her curtainless windows, switched off the overhead light, lit a circle of twelve white candles, and danced inside her arena of flames.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I carefully thumbtacked the invitation to the bulletin board for everyone to see.

Synonyms

C

to clip

vsto thumbtack

19 1.0

To fasten things together using a small metal or plastic device

uses a push in fastener pressed into a surface rather than clamping

P

to pin up

vsto thumbtack

4 3.6

To attach something to a wall or board with a pin

is narrower, using one specific push in fastener

Antonyms

R

to remove

∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

D

to detach

16 4.0

To come apart from something it is connected to

How Secure

to bolt

34 2.8

to staple

30 3.7

to thumbtack

• US

1 4.4

to pin

52 1.0

to stick

769 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology