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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Sheetrock

1921, proprietary name (claiming use from 1917) of a type of plaster wall-board, U.S. Gypsum Co., Chicago, Ill.; \nfrom sheet (n.1) + rock (n.).

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sheetrock

n. (context uncountable English) A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings; drywall vb. To install and finish sheetrock.

Usage examples of "sheetrock".

The temperature inside the green Sheetrock building was about 120 degrees and all three men were stripped to the waist and wore a second, fluid skin of sweat.

When the building had been condemned, the glass had been removed from the windows facing the street and replaced with large pieces of sheetrock as a defense against vandals.

I walked over and touched a big gouge in the Sheetrock where the chalky center was pushing through.

This space suffered punctuation by vertical Sheetrock planes that came to shoulder height, barely enough to give the illusion of partial privacy and damp conversations.

The Three Mulla-Mulgars and The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit and The Book of Three, Elidor and The Moon of Gomrath, Five Children and It, and Half Magic and Over Sea, Under Stone -- the kind of book that could distill an entire summer into a few hundred pages, the kind of book that can still summon up memories of hammocks and peach ice cream and the scent of lilacs, even if you actually first read them in a damp attic room smelling of wet sheetrock and ant traps.

The house had been repaired, new Sheetrock hung and painted because the damage had been too great to simply plaster over.

Red ooze, as if seeping from the Sheetrock, tracked down the pale yellow paint in many rivulets.

They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ifi-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.

Question: How many additional panels of sheetrock will you have to go out and buy?