Clues for the word "THUMB"
We've had 80 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 105 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on December 03, 2025.
Definition of thumb
- n. - The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
- v. t. - To handle awkwardly.
- v. t. - To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.
- v. t. - To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.
- v. i. - To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
Referring Clues
- Handy digit
- Green ___
- Hitcher's digit
- Big print maker
- Opposable digit
- Twiddled digit
- Hand part
- A gardener's might be green
- Seek a ride
- Try to catch, as a ride
- Hitchhiking need
- Snapping need
- Hitch
- Hitchhike
- Hitchhiker's digit
- Mitten part
- Hitch a ride
- A small Tom
- Tack type
- Critic or hitchhiker's need
- It may be useful in obtaining a 25-Down
- Hitchhiker's finger
- Rule of ____
- Digit
- Up or down item
- Up or down item?
- Tiny Tom
- Pollex
- Hitchhiker's signal
- Hand digit
- Pollex
- Hitch (a ride)
- Hitchhiker's aid
- Hitching tool
- Hitching aid
- Try to catch a ride
- Finger raised on the shoulder
- Hitchhiker's beckoner
- Word before screw or tack
- Glove part
- Thing that points downward for a dog
- Green digit?
- Something that turns up when you snap your fingers?
- It's not really a finger
- Gardener's "green" item
- Large digit?
- Rolling Stones "Under My ___"
- Stubby digit?
- A false statement about dwarf Tom's digital protection
- Hitch a ride with Tom
- Tom, joint holder of some small article
- Big digit
- Change ending to hit, one's up for success?
- One of two up for approval
- Digit that enables grasping
- The hand's pollex
- Digit (used for making a hitch?)
- It sometimes comes under the hammer
- Tom ___ , traditional hero of English folklore
- Rule of this from a practised hand?
- By the way, requests company gets 6 27
- Tom very low, seeing Buzz in grip of bacterial disease
- 2 kind of 15
- It's quite rough and ready as a rule
- Some of the day a doctor is on hand
- It may be a pointer to success or failure
- Pollex, in humans
- Yes, it's up - no, it's down!
- It's essential to snapping
- Bad thing to hit with a hammer
- First digit
- Little Tom's digit
- Texter's digit
- Hitch, as a ride
- Tom's part of Northumbria
- Rule of ___
- A green one is helpful in a garden
- First finger
- Flip (through)
- Stick out like a sore ___
Last Seen In
- LA Times - December 03, 2025
- LA Times - October 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 19, 2025
- USA Today - October 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 04, 2023
- USA Today - April 21, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 25, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 24, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 03, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - November 28, 2017
- Mirror Classic - September 18, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - September 06, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - August 20, 2017
- Jonesin - August 08, 2017
- Mirror Classic - June 19, 2017
- LA Times - May 30, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - February 22, 2017
- New York Times - December 04, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 19, 2016
- LA Times - April 12, 2016
- Netword - March 23, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - October 20, 2015
- And in 75 more crossword puzzles...