[Fictionary] inchpin ballot

[E Cohen]

Pro tip: One definition is real, the others are not.

Usual 2- and 1-point votes. Voting ends in a little over a week, 
Saturday night, 18 January 2020.



inchpin, n. A nail driven lightly into a board to hold a measuring tape 
in place. v. to drive in such a nail.

inchpin, n. (Scots Gaelic innispeann, island feather.) An auklet of the 
species Aethia nesiota, found in the Hebrides.

inchpin, n. (obs). Deer’s sweetbread.

inchpin, v. To fraudulently list a person as a dependent on a tax document.

inchpin, n. A spacing device for drilling holes in a belt or similar 
piece of leather or other material.

inchpin, n. 1) The primary equipment for miniature tabletop bowling, a 
game briefly popular after the World's Columbian Exposition. 2) Any 
inexperienced local politician ineffectually running for state or 
national office.

inchpin, n. A secret message written in Sprite and read by laying the 
paper on an anthill.

inchpin, n. The crime boss of a small city.

inchpin, n. 1) Any of the Rhabditida family of nematodes, commonly found 
as a parasite in the small intestines of reptiles and amphibians, and 
primarily endemic in the subtropics. 2) Any short, thin parasitic 
roundworm found in the gut of an animal.

inchpin, adj. A Shakespearean insult deprecating another’s manhood.

inchpin, n. A Flat Earth believer.


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