Definitions
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- noun a type of
lac orvanish - noun informal, US to get defeated in competition
- verb to apply shellack on something
- verb informal, US to beat repeatedly
- verb informal, US to defeat decisively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cover with shellac
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Examples
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Anybody can paint a stencil or shellack a poster on a wall. c-lo to bad your gay. markjpeg
Release Date and Info on Banksy’s Film Exit Through the Gift Shop | /Film 2010
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However, these themes are hidden beneath a shellack of style and action, fun to look at and watch though they are.
Brandon's Word: The Book of Eli is Stylish, But Also Slight « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Frigid females scorn sexy skimpily sheathed strumpet stage show, shellack sons and seniors with serious snowballs.
Archive 2007-06-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Frigid females scorn sexy skimpily sheathed strumpet stage show, shellack sons and seniors with serious snowballs.
Archive 2007-06-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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And, you need to stain the hardwood, and put a finishing gloss, or shellack.
Sexy Old Album Covers From My Father. Ann Althouse 2008
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That would build your reputations as posters with personal integrity (in low supply among neo-cons, I know) who prefer to elevate these conversations into an honest sharing of opinons, rather than seizing on the openings others provide to shellack them.
Think Progress » Harry Reid: No Good Military Options in Iran 2006
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The Democrats are between a rock and a hard place ~ they can go against Patraeus's optimistic September report and we will shellack them with accusations of deserting the troops and believe me ~ they'll fold faster than a tent in a sandstorm.
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Frigid females scorn sexy skimpily sheathed strumpet stage show, shellack sons and seniors with serious snowballs.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Snow Women - Fritz Leiber Blue Tyson 2007
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Hint: he won't touch that one with a ten-foot bottle of hair shellack.
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Many other forms are of value to man by producing material of commercial value such as lac, shellack, dyes, medicines, etc.
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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