pushpin

plural pushpins · alternative push-pin · alternative push pin

1. countableA small pin with a head made for gripping with the fingers, to be pushed into a bulletin board so as to pin papers to it; especially, such a pin with a cylindrical head.

   An illustration showed a pair of scissors slicing off the leg of a doll […] stuck with pushpins.

   2009 January 28, “Mexicans turning to black magic in hopes of defeating U.S.”, in Toronto Star

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   My invention relates to improvements in what are termed “push-pins,” said pins being adapted to support one article upon another and being particularly employed for holding photographic films stretched upon a surface, such as a board, for drying and the like.

   [1900 July 24, Edwin Moore, Push-Pin, US Patent 654319

2. archaicuncountableAn old children's game where pins are placed on a table and each player tries to push his pin so as to cross the other's.

present singular third person pushpins · participle present pushpinning · participle past pushpinned · past pushpinned · alternative push-pin · alternative push pin

1. transitiveTo fasten with a thumbtack.