Crossword clues for teflon
teflon
- Slippery substance
- Skillet coating
- Nonstick cookware coating
- Frying-pan coating
- What nothing sticks to
- Start of a slippery nickname for John Gotti
- Slippery discovery of 1938
- Nonstick skillet surface
- Nonstick pancoating
- Non-stick synthetic resin
- Non-stick material
- Non-stick coating
- Fabric protection brand
- DuPont nonstick coating brand
- Discovery of 1938
- Cooking surface
- 1938 DuPont invention
- 1938 Dupont discovery
- Polytetrafluoroethylene, familiarly
- Pan coating
- Kitchen coat
- Pan films?
- Pot cover
- Cookware cover
- Polytetrafluoroethylene, commercially
- (trademark) a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided
- Nonstick coating trademark
- Nonstick surface
- Covering bottom of utensil, often slippery - is it?
- Engineer left broadcasting, managing to dodge scandal?
- Not yet prepared to accept criminal leaving east - hard to blame him
- Plastic felt over bottom of pan
- Cookware coating
- Kitchen covering
- Slippery surface
- Nonstick stuff
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commercially important synthetic polymer, 1945, proprietary name registered in U.S. by du Pont, from chemical name (poly)te(tra)fl(uoroethylene) + arbitrary ending -on; popularized as a coating of non-stick pans in 1960s; metaphoric extension, especially in reference to U.S. President Ronald Reagan, is attested from an Aug. 2, 1983, speech on the floor of Congress by Pat Schroeder.
WordNet
adj. not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee; "they called Reagan the teflon president because mud never stuck to him" [syn: slippery, tricky]
n. a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided [syn: polytetrafluoroethylene]
Wikipedia
Teflon is the registered trademark of the DuPont company for its brand of polytetrafluoroethylene, a non-stick substance and thread seal tape.
Teflon may also refer to:
- Teflon (nickname), a nickname given to persons to whom criticism does not seem to stick
- "Teflon" (song), a 1998 song by Australian band Jebediah
- A song by American band The Mars Volta
- Teflon-AF, copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene and 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)-4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxole used as membrane materials
- Teflon FEP, fluorinated ethylene propylene used as a high-temperature insulation for wire.
- Teflon tape
"Teflon" is the third single from Slightly Odway, the debut album from Australian alternative rock band, Jebediah. It was written by band members, Chris Daymond, Kevin Mitchell, Vanessa Thornton and Brett Mitchell. It was recorded in April 1997 at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne and produced by Neill King. "Teflon" was officially released on 23 March 1998, peaking at number 41 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart. It polled at number 42 in the Triple J Hottest 100 music poll for 1998.
Usage examples of "teflon".
But you can bet your pension that Teflon Telford will be washing his hands like Pontius Pilate with a tin of Swarfega tonight.
Steve understood that, and knew it was the reason why Telford or Teflon, as he was known to the lower ranks continued to treat him as if he brought a bad smell into the office with him.
Chock-full of metal splinters coated in Teflon, propelled by a charge equal to twenty grenades.
Teflon frying pans to housewives or Velcro hold-fast fabrics to vaudeville performers, enabling them to appear in funny break-away costumes.
I have one eye, a scar that bisects my face, a stainless-steel hand, and a Teflon larynx.
The big bay doors were gaping open, the silvered Teflon surfaces of their radiator panels gleaming, and the bay itself was a complex trench, crammed with equipment, stretching sixty feet ahead of her.
With a body made of hard Teflon, it was the only electronic night-vision sight in the world designed to be completely immersible in seawater to a depth of fifty meters.
The final outer garment was crude - much more primitive than the pressure suit - just layers of white Beta-cloth, fibre-glass filaments coated with Teflon, with heat-retentive insulating material between, the chest unit studded with umbilical connectors and controls.
This is one of the boxes Jays Malone and his buddy filled up on the lunar surface, with Moon rocks they put in those numbered Teflon bags.
They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, ICBM, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, tupperware, sneakers, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, fuel cell, fuel injection, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS&None of these things would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900.
Holding the ice pick in one hand, he immediately poured boiling water over the teflon surface so that the residue ran into the drain.
I think the female courier was roughed up to change the MO so that the cops would assume South American gangs were at play, rather than the guys I call the Teflon gang.
What we're really short of is tool steel for drills and working edges, and stuff like Teflon lagging tape, hacksaw blades, files, sandpaper….