stickpin
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stickpin (plural stickpins)
- (US) An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
- 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post[1]:
- His stickpin was gone and so was his watch-chain.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 20:
- The green stone in his stickpin was not quite as large as an apple.
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pin to hold necktie — see tie clip