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thumbtacked

thumbtacked is the simple past and past participle of thumbtack.

Meaning of thumbtack

Verb

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.
    • On the particle-board partition that separated his cubicle from the next, Paul had thumbtacked things that might inspire him […]1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994

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Questions about thumbtacked

What is thumbtacked the simple past and past participle of?
Thumbtacked is the simple past and past participle of thumbtack.

Words near thumbtacked in the dictionary

  1. thumbstrokes
  2. thumbsucker
  3. thumbsuckers
  4. thumbsucking
  5. thumbtack
  6. thumbtacked
  7. thumbtacking
  8. thumbtacks
  9. thumbtip
  10. thumbtips
  11. thumbuster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbtacked (page history and authors); thumbtack (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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