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hellproof en · ADJ

Etymology

From hell + -proof.

Meanings

1. Resistant to hell.
   • A short while after we had published our early experiments with quartz glass, a man in Southern Virginia wrote to suggest that there might be mutual profit for him and for me if we would consider making silica-glass coffins which, he said, ought to be hellproof. 1936, American Society for Testing and Materials, Proceedings, volume 36, number 2, page 9:

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