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Also 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

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Vinony's link graph records 109 inbound references to pushpin, and connects out to Germany, iron and Tennessee.

It is catalogued under topics including Fasteners, Products introduced in 1900 and Stationery.

Vinony links it to 42 Wikipedia language editions.

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Subclass of
pin
Material used
polystyrene
Image
Brass thumbtack.jpg
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pin
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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.

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