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alt. 1 a type of lac or vanish 2 (context informal US English) to get defeated in competition n. 1 a type of lac or vanish 2 (context informal US English) to get defeated in competition vb. 1 to apply shellack on something 2 (context informal US English) to beat repeatedly 3 (context informal US English) to defeat decisively
Usage examples of "shellack".
She swaddled, instead, the clamshell in smoothed-out wax paper for safer keeping, for she meant the painted and shellacked shell to contain for all time her resolve and her reasons and her hopes of the day.
And I remember once we were having iced tea on the Neisser porch and talking and just outside the porch was their badminton court and I was watching some kids play badminton and Ed had just shellacked me, and as I left the court for the porch, he said, ‘.
And I remember once we were having iced tea on the Neisser porch and talking and just outside the porch was their badminton court and I was watching some kids play badminton and Ed had just shellacked me, and as I left the court for the porch, he said, 'Don't worry, it'll all work out, you'll get me next time' and I nodded, and then Ed said, 'And if you don't, you'll beat me at something else.
Mike would let himself know that spring had come again not when the first crocuses showed under his mom's kitchen windows or when kids started bringing immies and croakers to school or even when the Washington Senators kicked off the baseball season (usually getting themselves shellacked in the process), but only when his father hollered for Mike to help him push their mongrel truck out of the barn.
Beyond that hung a huge shellacked collage of recipes snipped from supermarket magazines and frankly gynaecologic Hustler centrefolds.
Grinning as he stopped in front of her desk, he leaned his palms against its expensive shellacked surface.
There was nothing but -the shellacked pine-board panel opposite me to direct my eyes at.
On it presently, the panel, I made out a faint tracing, still visible though it had been shellacked over.
His hands were folded on the shellacked birch rail of the witness stand and he maintained an impressive executive timbre in answering yes.
The drawer was lined with shellacked newspapers from the early 1900s, advertising farming equipment.
They are men spangled with epaulettes, toggles, tabs, and insignias, the breezy rapists from the Nautica ads, cool and criminal in their poplins, shellacked with light, but they know they’re in costume, that they’ve made an effort that other men, men like Tom, aren’t forced to make.
The gold-stamped spines of leather and vellum-bound tomes lined a high bookcase along one wall, and ornate tables, shellacked boxes, glittering robes and dim, disturbing paintings filled the rest of the room.
The furniture was of old pine, which Mrs Forrester, and Roscoe under her direction, had rubbed down with pumice, and rubbed up with oil, and shellacked until it had a permanently wet look.