shellacked

shellacked

English

Etymology

    From shellac + -ed.

    Adjective

    shellacked (comparative more shellacked, superlative most shellacked)

    1. Coated in shellac.
      • 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 41:
        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.
    2. (slang) Drunk.
      • 2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard:
        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.

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