drawing pin

1. 1.

   a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board

   Synonymsthumbtackpushpin

   Broadertackpaper fastener

Questions about drawing pin

What does drawing pin mean?

drawing pin means "a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board".

What is another word for drawing pin?

Close synonyms include thumbtack, pushpin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drawing pin a common word?

drawing pin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.