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発音

• IPA: /ˈθʌm.tæk/

名詞

thumbtack (plural thumbtacks)

1. (Canada, US) A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.

   Synonym: (British) drawing pin

   Coordinate term: pushpin

   • 2016 June 10, BlocBoy JB, “No Chorus, Pt. 5”, in Who Am I‎, 1:20–1:27:

     You say that I'm broke my nigga, how is that?
     Bitch I'm stickin to this paper like a thumbtack

動詞

thumbtack (third-person singular simple present thumbtacks, present participle thumbtacking, simple past and past participle thumbtacked)

1. (transitive) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.
   • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

     On the particle-board partition that separated his cubicle from the next, Paul had thumbtacked things that might inspire him […]

Further reading

• drawing pin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “thumbtack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.