stamp collecting
noun1
The hobby of collecting and displaying postage stamps and related items.
2
Derogatory, Figuratively, Usually Collection of items or information of no intrinsic value.
- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.a. 1937, attributed to Ernest Rutherford
- He really changed the field of paleontology from the stamp-collecting type of science where you just catalog fossils.2002 May 21, Michael Shermer (quoted), “Stephen Gould, 60”, in Los Angeles Times:
- Related terms
- stamp collection, stamp collector