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pasteboard

[ peyst-bawrd, -bohrd ]

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.

pasteboard

/ ˈɪˌɔː /

noun

    1. a stiff board formed from layers of paper or pulp pasted together, esp as used in bookbinding
    2. ( as modifier )

      a pasteboard book cover

  1. slang.
    a card or ticket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. flimsy; insubstantial
  2. sham; fake
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pasteboard1

First recorded in 1540–50; paste + board
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Before that, he had given a Thanksgiving premiere of Krenek’s Symphony No. 4, a serial work with “about as much savor to it as a pasteboard turkey,” the critic Virgil Thomson quipped.

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“We do not store or send the pasteboard contents. We removed this code and are releasing the fix on July 14th.”

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And finally his spirit of incompetence means that conservatives get far less out of his administration than they would from a genuine imperial president, a man of iron rather than of pasteboard.

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While their white counterparts lived in brick barracks, the black Marines slept in pasteboard huts in a freshly torn pine tree forest, according to the book “African American Voices From Iwo Jima.”

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On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car.

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