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plastic fantastic en · NOUN
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(informal) A fibreglass boat.
The boat designs (with their fiberglass construction-the “Plastic Fantastics”) showed great speed in a breeze in the Worlds, but suffered in lighter airs.
1986, Motorboating, volume 158, number 1, page 90:Charter boats are what we call 'plastic fantastics' – all from the same mould – and anyway, chartering is so expensive […]
2013, Lynn Michell, Shooting Stars are the Flying Fish of the Night:
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