thimble printer
noun
A computer printer in which the printing element is a thimble.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Byte Magazine.
- spare no expense (or no expense spared)
- spare (or save) someone's blushes
- spare part
- spare-part surgery
- sparer
- spare rib
- spare someone's blushes
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- spare time
- spare tyre
- sparge
- sparger
- sparid
- sparing
- sparingly
- sparingness
- spark
- spark chamber
- Spark, Dame Muriel
- spark gap
- sparking plug
- sparkish
- sparkle
- sparkler
- sparkless