Thumbtack

"Ouch!" "What's the matter?" "I stepped on a thumbtack."

He put a thumbtack on the teacher's chair.

He drew from his pocket a square of cardboard and affixed it to the board with a thumbtack.

You say that I'm broke my nigga, how is that? Bitch I'm stickin to this paper like a thumbtack

On the particle-board partition that separated his cubicle from the next, Paul had thumbtacked things that might inspire him […]