A straight pin with an ornamental head, worn to keep a tie in place or as a brooch.
〈北美〉（插在领带或用作胸针的）装饰别针
Example sentencesExamples
She'll cover herself in balloons, then plunge a stickpin through each one.
Morrison painstakingly describes the privilege of those with diamond stickpins, fine cigars and monogrammed silver, pointedly contrasting it with a world in which a child's bedroom is a luxury.
The symbolic and concrete evidence of these new patterns of consumption were the diamond-studded stickpins, gold pocketwatches, and hard cash pedestrians conspicuously paraded while traversing the streets.
‘It's about the quiet, everyday minutes,’ says the 26-year-old jewelry artist of her handcrafted brooches, stickpins and rings.
Of course, other accessories like a tie, stickpin, cigarette case and lighter should not be neglected.
Definition of stickpin in US English:
stickpin
nounˈstikˌpinˈstɪkˌpɪn
North American
A straight pin with an ornamental head, worn to keep a tie in place or as a brooch.
〈北美〉（插在领带或用作胸针的）装饰别针
Example sentencesExamples
The symbolic and concrete evidence of these new patterns of consumption were the diamond-studded stickpins, gold pocketwatches, and hard cash pedestrians conspicuously paraded while traversing the streets.
Of course, other accessories like a tie, stickpin, cigarette case and lighter should not be neglected.
She'll cover herself in balloons, then plunge a stickpin through each one.
‘It's about the quiet, everyday minutes,’ says the 26-year-old jewelry artist of her handcrafted brooches, stickpins and rings.
Morrison painstakingly describes the privilege of those with diamond stickpins, fine cigars and monogrammed silver, pointedly contrasting it with a world in which a child's bedroom is a luxury.