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matchstick
/ ˈmætʃˌstɪk /
noun
- the wooden part of a match
adjective
- made with or as if with matchsticks
a matchstick model
- (esp of figures drawn with single strokes) thin and straight
matchstick men
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Word History and Origins
Origin of matchstick1
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Example Sentences
Two small openings roughly equal to the diameter of a matchstick are left for urination and menstruation respectively.
Turning sidewise, the boat lifted like a matchstick on the crest of a giant wave and spun dizzily down into the trough.
There were several small matchstick size fragments of rib within the pleural cavity.
He rose up suddenly in the chair, pointing a long matchstick finger into Wyatt's face.
He waved the smoking matchstick to imply virtues in Wheaton which it was unnecessary to mention.
One pier of a concrete bridge, erected two years before,256 which spans Silver and Porter Streets, cracked off like a matchstick.
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