Briefly, I would define meta-culture as a systems approach to the problem of human culture, both generally defined as a theoretical and central anthropological concept, and defined in an applied and methodological sense in the various forms that metacultural application might take.
General Tom Thumb. Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 â July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name General Tom Thumb, was a little person who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. 1 Childhood and early life.
The thumb. noun. The thumb is the short finger on your hand that is nearest your wrist. The short finger on your hand that is opposable to your other fingers is an example of a thumb. To thumb is to use the short finger of your hand to touch something or to turn the pages of a book. When you turn the pages of a book using the short finger on your hand, this is an example of a time when you thumb through the book.