Usually means: Synthetic material, moldable, various uses.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word plastic:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. plastic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -plastic, plastic: Merriam-Webster
  3. plastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plastic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -plastic, plastic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plastic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plastic, -plastic, plastic: Wordnik
  8. plastic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plastic: Wiktionary
  10. -plastic, plastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. -plastic, plastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. -plastic, plastic: Dictionary.com
  14. plastic (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plastic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plastic (Alanis Morissette song), Plastic (Joey Tafolla album), Plastic (New Order song), Plastic (comics), Plastic (disambiguation), Plastic (song), Plastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plastic, -plastic, plastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plastic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plastic: Rhymezone
  20. plastic, plastic, plastic (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. -plastic, plastic: MyWord.info
  23. plastic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. plastic: FreeDictionary.org
  25. plastic: ESL Idiom Page
  26. plastic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Plastic: The Word Detective
  28. plastic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plastic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. -plastic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. plastic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plastic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. plastic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. -plastic, plastic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PLASTIC: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plastic, plastic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plastic: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. the plastic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. The Stamp Store Glossary (concrete) (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Plastic: Fiberglass Glossary
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Plastic (adj): Pottery Studio

(Note: See plasticky as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
noun:  (colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.Mickey D's
noun:  (figurative, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
noun:  (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
noun:  (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
noun:  (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
adjective:  Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
adjective:  (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
adjective:  (dated) Creative, formative.
adjective:  (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
adjective:  Made of plastic.
adjective:  (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.
adjective:  (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
adjective:  (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
adjective:  (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.

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