Usually means: Cut notches for quick referencing.
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  1. thumb index: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thumb index: Merriam-Webster
  3. thumb index: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thumb index: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thumb index: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thumb index: Vocabulary.com
  7. thumb-index: Wordnik
  8. thumb index: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. thumb index: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. thumb-index, thumb index: Dictionary.com
  11. Thumb index: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. thumb index: Rhymezone
  13. thumb index: FreeDictionary.org
  14. thumb index: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. thumb-index, thumb index: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. thumb index: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thumb index)

noun:  A series of alphabetically marked or otherwise labelled semicircular cut-outs in the fore edge of a large reference book, encyclopaedia, Bible, etc., that allows quick access to various parts of the text.

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