Definitions for pasteboards

pasteboards paste·board

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

Pasteboards is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1190 anagrams from letters in pasteboards (aabdeoprsst).

Definitions for pasteboards

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 pasteboards

First recorded in 1540-50; paste + board

Examples for pasteboards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pasteboards
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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