corkboard

noun

cork·​board ˈkȯrk-ˌbȯrd How to pronounce corkboard (audio)
: a heat-insulating material made of compressed granulated cork
also : a bulletin board made with this material

Examples of corkboard in a Sentence

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Mounds of garbage bags, some several feet high, dot the red-brick streets like pins on a corkboard. — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025 Simply cut an acorn shape from a piece of craft-store corkboard and use punched cardstock circles to create the cap. — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025 It is still barely decorated, just a corkboard pinned with photos of the boys and a folding table covered with stacks of reports. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026 The whole thing lends itself more to a conspirator’s corkboard than to a demystifying summary. — Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for corkboard

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1893, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of corkboard was circa 1893

Rhymes for corkboard

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“Corkboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corkboard. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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