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Definition of Pushpin
1. Noun. A tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board.
Generic synonyms: Paper Fastener, Tack
Derivative terms: Thumbtack
Definition of Pushpin
1. n. A child's game played with pins.
Definition of Pushpin
1. Noun. A thumbtack ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) An 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pushpin
1. a large-headed pin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pushpin
Literary usage of Pushpin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New French and English Dictionary in Two Parts by William Cobbett (1833)
"POUPÉE, sf. a doll or baby, a milliner's block. C'est un visage de poupée, she
looks like a doll. POUSSETTE, sf. pushpin, children's play. ..."
2. Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India by David Lester Richardson (1840)
"If there were the same connection between Poetry and pushpin that there is between
man and ... But there is no kind of relation between Poetry and pushpin. ..."
3. The Duty of Altruism by Ray Madding McConnell (1910)
"If my nature will "play pushpin," it is a waste of your tune for you to come and
sing to me the praises of'' poetry.'' I reply, "Reading and writing poetry ..."
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