单词 | laccy |
释义 | laccyn. colloquial. Elastic. Also occasionally: an elastic band. Somewhat rare except in lacky band n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > elastic elastica1847 shirr1858 laccy1906 lacky band1950 1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 128 ‘But what wonderful beast yields this stretching leather?’ ‘It's laccy—elastic. You put the bullet into that loop, and then you pull hard.’ 1956 J. Moore Come Rain Come Shine iv. 109 We..always insisted that the only true catty-lacky [i.e. catapult elastic] was the square-sided. 1993 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 18 As far as I know, ‘lacka’ and ‘lacky’ are colloquial abbreviations of ‘elastic’. 2012 Angling Times 7 Aug. 23/3 White Hydro. Quite simply the most versatile elastic ever... This laccy stretches for miles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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