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shellacked

shellacked adjective: coated in shellac.

Adjective

shellacked (comparative more shellacked, superlative most shellacked)

  1. Coated in shellac.
    • At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold.1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 41
  2. (slang) Drunk.
    • Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard

Forms of shellacked

comparativemore shellacked
superlativemost shellacked

Origin of shellacked

From shellac + -ed.

Words formed from shellacked

Questions about shellacked

What does shellacked mean?
Shellacked means coated in shellac.
What part of speech is shellacked?
Shellacked is an adjective.

Words near shellacked in the dictionary

  1. shell-suits
  2. shellability
  3. shellable
  4. shellac
  5. shellack
  6. shellacked
  7. shellacker
  8. shellackers
  9. shellacking
  10. shellackings
  11. shellacks

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