pasteboard

pasteboard
n
1. cardboard, strawboard, paper-board, pulpboard, Bookbinding. millboard, binder's board.
2.Slang. card, calling card, visiting card; (plural) playing cards, pack, deck, Inf. fifty-two.
3.Slang. ticket, ticket of admission, stub, receipt, Inf. chit; script, pass, coupon, Inf. Annie Oakley.
adj
4. unsubstantial, nonsubstantial, insubstantial, unsolid, hollow; flimsy, thin, fragile, frail, weak, jerry-built, jerry, unsound, infirm, unstable, breakable, frangible; shaky, unreliable, precarious, hazardous, not to be depended or relied upon.
5. trumped-up, made-up, make-believe, faked, feigned, unreal, brummagem, tinsel; mock, pseudo, sham, fake, imitation, false, synthetic, counterfeit, unreal, bogus; deceptive, misleading, paste, spurious, ungenuine, Inf. phony; bastardly, supposititious

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