Definitions for pasteboard

pasteboard paste·board

Spelling: [peyst-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈpeɪstˈbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Pasteboard is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 989 anagrams from letters in pasteboard (aabdeoprst).

Definitions for pasteboard

noun

  1. a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
  2. Older Slang. a card, as a visiting card or a playing card.
  3. Older Slang. a ticket, as for the theater.

adjective

  1. made of pasteboard.
  2. unsubstantial, flimsy, or sham.

Origin of pasteboard

First recorded in 1540-50; paste + board

Examples for pasteboard

He took a card from his wallet and laid the torn bit of pasteboard upon it.

Inside the wooden box was a pasteboard one of exactly the same shape.

Mortimer exposed the pasteboard he had acquired on his entry to the stand.

The pasteboard boxes went to the floor in a clattering rush.

On every hand walls collapsed as though they had been made of pasteboard.

All at once, while I was looking at my pasteboard, and wondering what I should do with this end, it came to me.

And the boat part is about as substantial as a pasteboard battleship.

What could be the meaning of the words on that infernal piece of pasteboard?

It was enclosed in a pasteboard box, and, when packed, looked just like the parcel of pills.

Yes, there was the cache I had made by splitting the pasteboard with my jack-knife.

Word Value for pasteboard
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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