thumbs
thumbs is the plural of thumb.
thumbs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thumb.
Meaning of thumb
Noun
thumb (plural thumbs)
- The shortest and thickest digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
- The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
- a scroll-bar thumb
- A thumbnail picture.
- A top hatch plate for covering an excavator bucket, used to keep material in the digger bucket after scooping it up, and not letting it spill out.
Words formed from thumbs
Phrases with thumbs
- thumbs up
- thumbs ups
- Tom Thumbs
- sore thumbs
- thumbs down
- black thumbs
- brown thumbs
- green thumbs
- thumbs downs
- thumbs a ride
- two thumbs up
- thumbs through
24 more phrasesFewer phrases
- miller's thumbs
- opposable thumbs
- thumbs one's nose
- fingers and thumbs
- twirl one's thumbs
- thumbs on the scale
- thumbs up, seven up
- twirls one's thumbs
- thumbs on the scales
- twiddle one's thumbs
- twirled one's thumbs
- heads down, thumbs up
- twiddled one's thumbs
- twiddles one's thumbs
- twirling one's thumbs
- all fingers and thumbs
- twiddling one's thumbs
- had one's fingers all thumbs
- has one's fingers all thumbs
- one's fingers are all thumbs
- have one's fingers all thumbs
- with one's thumbs up one's ass
- having one's fingers all thumbs
- with one's thumbs up one's arse
Questions about thumbs
- What is thumbs the plural of?
- Thumbs is the plural of thumb.
Words near thumbs in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbs (page history and authors); thumb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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