shellacked

shellacked
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.


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  • shellacked — 1. mod. beaten; outscored. □ They were shellacked, and they knew it. □ The team got shellacked in last week’s ame. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated; overcome by booze. □ Ernie was so shellacked he couldn’t see …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • shellacked —    mainly American    very drunk    Literally, covered with shellac, a varnish which is stoved to give a glazed appearance.    To be shellacked may also mean to be utterly defeated (WCND) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • shellacked — adj drunk. A term originating in the USA in the 1920s; shellack (its standard meaning being to apply varnish) first meant to beat or punish; this was then extended to denote the effects of alco hol …   Contemporary slang

  • shellacked — shel·lac || ʃə læk n. lac that has been purified and processed into thin sheets or flakes; varnish made from processed lac dissolved in alcohol (also shellack) v. coat with varnish; rout, defeat soundly (Slang) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • shellacked — adjective varnish with shellac. → shellac …   English new terms dictionary

  • shellacked — adj. defeated; beaten (often in a game or other contest) …   English slang

  • shellac — 1. noun A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc. Syn: E904, glazing agent 2. verb a) To coat something with shellac …   Wiktionary

  • shellac — [ʃə lak] noun lac resin melted into thin flakes, used for making varnish. verb (shellacks, shellacking, shellacked) 1》 [often as adjective shellacked] varnish with shellac. 2》 N. Amer. informal defeat decisively. Origin C17: from …   English new terms dictionary

  • shellac — I. noun Etymology: 1shell + lac Date: 1704 1. purified lac usually prepared in thin orange or yellow flakes by heating and filtering and often bleached white 2. a preparation of lac dissolved usually in alcohol and used chiefly as a wood filler… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Stearic acid — Stearic acid[1] …   Wikipedia

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