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pasteboard (iou)



pasteboard noun & adjective. E16.
[from PASTE noun or verb + BOARD noun.]
A. noun.
I.
Stiff material made by pasting sheets of paper together (and, now, compressing them). Also (now rare), a piece of this, spec. a board or cover of a book. E16.
b. fig. This as the type of something flimsy, unsubstantial, or counterfeit (cf. sense B.2 below). E19.
slang.
a. A visiting-card. M19.
b. A playing-card. M19.
c. A train ticket. M19.
II.
(Usu. with hyphen.) A board on which paste or dough is rolled out. M19.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
Made of pasteboard. L16.
fig. Unsubstantial; unreal, counterfeit. M17.