plastic
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Is plastic a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (colloquial, metonymic) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.Examples: "I knew the war between cash and credit cards was over and plastic had won, hands down, when even Mickey D's started taking credit and debit cards."; "It's all about fast cars and cussing each other / but it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic / and that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic."colloquialcountablemetonymicallyuncountable
2. (figurative, slang) Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.Examples: "Cady: You know I couldn't invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic. Janis: Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic."; "Tessa: Pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me to a town full of plastic."countablefigurativelyslanguncountable
3. (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.Examples: "Somebody's had a plastic done on his nose, I think, or else somebody bent it out of shape since I last saw it."countableslang
4. (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.archaiccountableuncountable
6. (slang) Synonym of Plastic Paddy.Synonyms: Plastic Paddycountableslanguncountable
adj (English)
1. (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.archaic
2. (dated) Creative, formative.Examples: "Benign Creator! let thy plastic hand dispose its own effect"; "See plastic Nature working to this end."dated
3. (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
4. (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.Examples: "The Hippie has been replaced by the pseudo-Hippie, the plastic Hippie, the weekend Hippie"; "People always try to say that we're garage rock, but that scene is so plastic. Some dude in a band has tight jeans, dyed black hair, and a starving girlfriend with bangs, and people call it indie rock. It's so gross."; "Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize..."Synonyms: ersatzderogatoryfiguratively
5. (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.Examples: "He kissed the white woman once, and it was so artificial, so plastic (that's the word, plastic) that one wondered why did they bother at all."; "Then go home and check yourself / You think we're singing 'bout someone else… / But you're plastic people / You gotta go"; "Plastic people with plastic minds / Are on their way to plastic homes"Synonyms: fake, insincereAntonyms: genuine, sincerefigurativelyinformal
6. (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.Examples: "A superb — and apparently wild, not plastic — Baikal Teal was located at RSPB Greylake in Somerset[.]"informal
Definition source: Wiktionary