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pushpin
Sign in to saveAlso known as thumb tack, push pin, thumbtack, tack, thumb-tack, push-pin, drawing-pin, 📌
short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- pin
- Material used
- polystyrene
- Image
- Brass thumbtack.jpg
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- different from
- pin
- Unicode character
- 📌
- Commons category
- Pushpins
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Encyclopedic overview
Push pin Drawing pin or thumb tack
A drawing pin (in British English) or thumb tack (in North American English), also called a push-pin, is a short, small pin or nail with a flat, broad head that can be pressed into place with pressure from the thumb, often used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pushpin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.