pasteboard

noun

ˈpās(t)-ˌbȯrd How to pronounce pasteboard (audio)
Definition of pasteboardnext
as in ticket
a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance) those pasteboards I got from a scalper cost me four times their face value

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Recent Examples of pasteboard Tickets are all mobile — no pasteboard stubs to keep for the scrapbook anymore. — Madalyn Mendoza, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2021 The thin strips of pasteboard nailed to the walls was a ramshackle form of insulation, and textbook tinder. — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017 If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, white bread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2020 As MacRumors reminds us, Apple introduced a privacy feature in iOS 16 which forces apps to ask permission before accessing your pasteboard to paste content from other apps. — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022 It is filled with antiques from the earliest period when the family of Francis Watlington — a sea captain, harbor master and state legislator — resided here, including a game table set with 19th century pasteboard playing cards. — Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024 In all, the Oroville Lake Marinas company removed 130 houseboats; floating recreation palaces such as the Monte-Carol and La Bella Vita now sit in a parking lot on stacks of pasteboard props. — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 June 2021 Her three magnificent novels about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell—Henry VIII’s fixer-in-chief, who oversaw England’s rupture with the Church of Rome—stripped the robes of cliché and hindsight from one of history’s pasteboard ogres. — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasteboard
  1. ticket
  2. check
Noun
  • With group play coming to a close and the Round of 32 approaching, the competition is heating up as teams look to punch their tickets to the knockout round in hopes of hoisting the FIFA World Cup Trophy at the final on Sunday, July 19.
    — Jaclyn Hendricks, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • That punched El Tri's ticket straight to the Round of 16 and kept the host nation's tournament dream alive for at least one more match.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of ticket
Noun
  • On Monday night, Contreras was ejected in the second inning after a check-swing strikeout prompted him to give a sarcastic ABS challenge gesture at the umpire, earning an instant boot.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • The power of an underseat carry-on is not to be overlooked, especially for frequent fliers who can’t afford to waste time at an at-gate bag check.
    — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026
Definition of check

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