thumbprint

thumbprint
[[t]θʌ̱mprɪnt[/t]]
thumbprints
1) N-COUNT A thumbprint is a mark made by a person's thumb which shows the pattern of lines on its surface.
2) N-COUNT If you say that something such as a project has someone's thumbprint on it, you mean that it has features that make it obvious that they have been involved with it.

It's got your thumbprint all over it...

His personal goal was to put `his thumb print' on a program of changes.


English dictionary. 2008.

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