Thumb (disambiguation)

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The thumb is the first digit of the human hand.

Thumb may also refer to:

Computing

• ARM Thumb, an instruction encoding and corresponding execution mode for the ARM architecture
• Thumbnail, shortened designation used in markup languages and other programming languages
  • Windows thumbnail cache, a file used in the Windows operating system

Entertainment

• Thumb, track 9 from Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind (1991)
• The Thumbs, an American punk rock band
• Thumb (band), a German rapcore band
• Thumb Bandits, video game TV show
• Thumb Candy, video game TV show
• Thumbs!, a series of film parodies

Geography

Canada

• The Thumb (mountain), a mountain in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia
• The Thumb (Omineca), a mountain in the Omineca Country of British Columbia

United States

• The Thumb, a region in Michigan
• Thumb Lake, aka Lake Louise in Hudson Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan
• Thumb Mountain, in New Hampshire

Canada-U.S. border

• Devils Thumb, a mountain between Alaska and British Columbia

Elsewhere

• The Thumbs (Tasmania), Tasmanian islet, Australia
• Thumb Peak (Palawan), a small mountain in central Palawan, Philippines

People

• General Tom Thumb, the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838–1883), a dwarf who achieved great fame
• Peter Thumb (1681–1767), an Austrian architect whose family came from the Vorarlberg

Other uses

• Thumb (backhoe), a thumb-like metal bar hinged to a backhoe's scoop
• Hop-o'-My-Thumb, a folk tale
• Rule of thumb, an informal rule
• Thumbs up (disambiguation), various meanings originating with a hand gesture

See also

• THUMS Islands
• Tom Thumb (disambiguation)