Synonyms of pasteboard

pasteboard

noun

ˈpās(t)-ˌbȯrd 

as in ticket

a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance)

those pasteboards I got from a scalper cost me four times their face value

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ticket
• check
• coupon
• pass
• certificate
• token
• note
• voucher

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pasteboard

It is filled with antiques from the earliest period when the family of Francis Watlington — a sea captain, harbor master and state legislator — resided here, including a game table set with 19th century pasteboard playing cards. — Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024

Her three magnificent novels about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell—Henry VIII’s fixer-in-chief, who oversaw England’s rupture with the Church of Rome—stripped the robes of cliché and hindsight from one of history’s pasteboard ogres. — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022

As MacRumors reminds us, Apple introduced a privacy feature in iOS 16 which forces apps to ask permission before accessing your pasteboard to paste content from other apps. — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022

In all, the Oroville Lake Marinas company removed 130 houseboats; floating recreation palaces such as the Monte-Carol and La Bella Vita now sit in a parking lot on stacks of pasteboard props. — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 19 June 2021

Tickets are all mobile — no pasteboard stubs to keep for the scrapbook anymore. — Madalyn Mendoza, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2021

If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, white bread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2020

The thin strips of pasteboard nailed to the walls was a ramshackle form of insulation, and textbook tinder. — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017