THUMBPRINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thumbprint mean? 

• THUMBPRINT (noun)
  The noun THUMBPRINT has 1 sense:

1. fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb)

  Familiarity information: THUMBPRINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUMBPRINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("thumbprint" is a kind of...):

fingerprint (a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations)

 Context examples 

There was evidently some mark, some thumbprint, something which might give a clue to the person’s identity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)