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Definition of Tintack
1. Noun. Tack or small nail of tinned iron.
Definition of Tintack
1. Noun. A short nail or tack coated with tin ¹
2. Noun. (British) A drawing pin / thumbtack ¹
3. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) Meaning "sack" (lose one's job). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tintack
1. a tack coated with tin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tintack
Literary usage of Tintack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years Ago by Walter Besant (1888)
"He then hammered a tintack into the heel of each slipper, and waited again, until
a confederate gave the alarm, and the fat butler, hurrying down, ..."
2. Electrical Engineer (1890)
"... which, when a current was turned into it, though the iron was highly magnetised
internally, would not pick up an iron filing or attract a tintack. ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1890)
"Our glue-and-tintack carpentry is not done with a view to posterity.' ' Well,
squire,' continued Gillam, returning to his first idea, ' if you won't sell ..."
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