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like a plasterer's radio

like a plasterer's radio adjective: thickly covered with some substance.

like a plasterer's radio: thickly covered with some substance
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Adjective

like a plasterer's radio (not comparable)

  1. (UK, slang) Thickly covered with some substance.
    • A track mark ran down through his remaining chest hair like a napalm strike in a Vietnamese jungle, and the flaking skin of his Latin torso now looked like a plasterer's radio.2017 March 22, David Ross, The Man Who Loved Islands, Orenda Books, →ISBN
    • It was an epic run to Montalcino, with Cadel Evans leading home a field of dancing statues: the rain left the entire peloton looking like a plasterer's radio by the end.2023 May 25, Carlton Kirby, Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 33
    1. (UK, especially, slang, vulgar) Covered with semen.
      • But, if you have a daughter, does it torture you? The thought of her getting fucked? Some dude getting stuck in? Her face like a plasterer's radio?2017 March 22, Mark Catley, Scuffer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
      • The seemingly never-ending streams of ectoplasm emanating from his musket soon had me coated like a plasterer's radio.2018 April 8, Becky Clark, Fiction Can Be Murder, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN

Examples of like a plasterer's radio in a sentence

  • 'She had a face like a plasterer's radio.'2020 February 6, Chris Atkins, A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
  • He was our brickie and started every sentence with: " If I was still a young man," followed by such gems of wisdom as: " I'd leave her looking like a plasterer's radio," […]2024 September 28, Laurence Seidler, Busy Being Born, Book Guild Publishing, →ISBN:

Origin of like a plasterer's radio

The portable radios used by plasterers and other builders while working tend to end up thickly covered in plaster and paint.

Questions about like a plasterer's radio

What does like a plasterer's radio mean?
Like a plasterer's radio means thickly covered with some substance.
How do you use like a plasterer's radio in a sentence?
'She had a face like a plasterer's radio.'
What part of speech is like a plasterer's radio?
Like a plasterer's radio is an adjective.

Words near like a plasterer's radio in the dictionary

  1. like a moth to the flame
  2. like a mother hawk
  3. like a pakapoo ticket
  4. like a phoenix from the ashes
  5. like a pig in clover
  6. like a plasterer's radio
  7. like a raped ape
  8. like a rat from a sinking ship
  9. like a rat up a drain
  10. like a rat up a drainpipe
  11. like a ripe plum

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