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Credit cards, slangily
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plastic
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cardboard/wooden/plastic box ▪ We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes. a paper/plastic/china cup (= one made of paper etc ) ▪ All they had to drink was warm beer in plastic cups. a plastic/glass/metal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1905, "solid substance that can be molded," originally of dental molds, from plastic (adj.). Main current meaning, "synthetic product made from oil derivatives," first recorded 1909, coined by Leo Baekeland (see bakelite ).
Usage examples of plastic.
The late show that same individuality broadening to a conception of the whole world as plastic material, sustained by a sense of understanding and support, coming into relationship and cooperation with an accumulating movement of kindred minds.
Standing now at the edge of this pond, Ambler whipped his fishing rod back and forth, trying to drop the tiny dot of burgundy fly into the yellow plastic hoop floating thirty feet away.
I stared down at the ampoule in his hand, the little glass vial and the sealed blue plastic top.
The finger was then amputated at the second joint and the plastic operation completed, with a result pleasing both to patient and operator.
Anna and Barth each took a yellow plastic hard hat from the row she indicated with a red porcelain nail and left their Stetsons in their places.
The beautician had divided the damp strands into sections, inserting small white plastic rollers as dainty as chicken bones.
The games arcade is as stuffed as ever, the floor strewn with Woozle Pup wrappers and crunched clear plastic bento boxes and chopsticks from The Great Teriyaki Experience!
The spicier varieties, usually designer ketchups, are zesty on a plastic spoon but obscure the loveliness of a crisp French fry, which the blander, mainstream brands perfectly complement.
I scooped it onto a hunk of plastic film, folded the fair-size blivit neatly, and left it nearby.
Tuscan sunset glimpsed through straggling vines was painted onto a rough-hewn wall on the far side, decorated with bunches of bloomy plastic grapes.
My collection includes everythingcandy-pink rain boots, shoes with feathers and sequins, wooden clogs, alligator-skin bootees, other footwear in plastic.
The wall was of a rocklike substance, but it was not like any rock or plastic Burl had ever seen.
Beautiful expanses of metal and plastic, each enclosed in seductively homogeneous chitin of earth tones and ochers, formed a ring around the room as secret and monolithic as Stonehenge.
Cheap hoors, he thought with satisfaction, a fancy car made of plastic.
Standing by the incubators and glove boxes, not thinking about anything in particular, breathing in the familiar odors of warm plastic and hypochlorite, the faint tang of methanol and the yeasty must of nutrient concentrate, allowing them to calm her.