| 释义 |
plastic
noun- a credit card; consumer credit in general US
- These were fifteen-thousand-a-year guys–not paying with plastic, either: hard-earned green. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 13, 1979
- Carol was the Queen of Plastic. She could have written books on how to make two grand a day from a hot American Express card. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 35, 1981
- It costs me fifteen bucks for the cab to LAX and a hundred twenty-nine bucks on my plastic to New Orleans. — Robert Campbell, In La-La Land We Trust, p. 262, 1986
- What the sponsor will do is give the kid some plastic and about $500 in cash a week[.] — Dan Jenkins, Dead Solid Perfect, p. 22, 1986
- — Judi Sanders, Faced and Faded, Hanging to Hurl, p. 30, 1993
- He had so many petty thieves, crack-heads and scumbags on his books, changing plastic into paper was a doddle for him. — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 53, 2002
- a person who is liable to act in an unpredictable manner UK
- James is evidently an old-code man, with a sharp eye for separating the diamonds (good guys) from the plastics (flaky ones)[.] — The Guardian, p. 4, 13 May 2003
- a condom US
- I always pack the plastic. I ain’t goin’ out like Willy Lump-Lump. — Menace II Society, 1993
- a Glock handgun US
- I handle my plastic, gunplay I mastered. — RZA, The Wu-Tang Manual, p. 177, 2005
▶ on the plastic
using stolen credit cards, etc UK- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 83, 1996
▶ pull plastic
(used of a prisoner) to place your belongings in a plastic rubbish bag when you are transferred US- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 57, 1997
|