Definitions for pushpin

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pushpin push·pin

Spelling: [poo sh-pin]

IPA: /ˈpʊʃˌpɪn/

Pushpin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in pushpin (hinppsu).

Definitions for pushpin

noun

1. a short pin having a spool-shaped head of plastic, glass, or metal, used for affixing material to a bulletin board, wall, or the like.
2. an early children's game.
3. Archaic. child's play; triviality.

Origin of pushpin

1580-90, for an earlier sense; push + pin

Examples for pushpin

Do you mean to say that you really agree with Bentham that, quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry?

I play at pushpin with Homer every morning before breakfast, fingering and polishing, as Paris did his armour.