Usually means: Small pins for attaching papers.
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  1. pushpins: Merriam-Webster
  2. pushpins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pushpins: Vocabulary.com
  4. pushpins: Wordnik
  5. pushpins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pushpins: Wiktionary
  7. pushpins: Dictionary.com
  8. Pushpins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. pushpins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pushpin)

noun:  (countable) A small pin with a head made for gripping with the fingers, to be pushed into a bulletin board so as to pin papers to it; especially, such a pin with a cylindrical head.
noun:  (archaic, uncountable) An old children's game where pins are placed on a table and each player tries to push his pin so as to cross the other's.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten with a thumbtack.
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