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thumbtacking

thumbtacking is the present participle and gerund 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 thumbtacking

What is thumbtacking the present participle and gerund of?
Thumbtacking is the present participle and gerund of thumbtack.

Words near thumbtacking in the dictionary

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

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