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silicone en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, slang) Having had cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement.
They want to see men covered in sweat, lying in bed with some unknown, blank, silicone actresses — they want sculpted bodies, they don't give a shit about performance.
2009, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Anonymous Celebrity, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 152:Nowadays it is a cliché to associate silicone women with narco aesthetics, overdrawn Pamela Anderson clones popularized by telenovelas.
2020 March 18, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 58:Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through.
2006 09, Anne Thomas Soffee, Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L. A., Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 125:
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silicon
silicone en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.
[H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.
2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 93:
Forms
Deriveds
Silastic · siliconing · silicone rubber · siliconed · silicone grease · silicone spray · siliconize · nonsilicone · Silicone Valley
Descendants
シリコーン
Translations (28)
ca silicona (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · bg силикон (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · fi silikoni (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · hu szilikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · nl silicone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · it silicone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · nb silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · ro silicon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · sv silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · cmn 矽酮 (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · da silikone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · cs silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · nn silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · pl silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · pt silicone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · ko 실리콘 (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · pl sylikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · ga sileacón (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · ta மண்ணியப்படியம் (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · cmn 硅酮 (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · ja シリコーン (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · de Silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · ru силикон (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · fr silicone (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · cmn 矽氧樹脂 /矽氧树脂 (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · cmn 硅氧樹脂 /硅氧树脂 (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · es silicona (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon) · tr silikon (any of a class of inert compounds of silicon)
silicone en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.
Meanings
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(transitive) To join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.
Structural glazing or siliconing of window units is, according to Donald F. Kelly, Jr., president of AMPAT, the bonding of glass to a metal frame.
1984, United States National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 963:silicone the bathtub to the tile
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(informal, transitive) To enhance or reconstruct (a body part) with a prosthesis containing silicone.
The next girl, with huge, perfectly spherical, siliconed breasts perched high on her slender chest, got the loudest roar. ‘Oh, there are two things I like about her!’ shouted the DJ. ‘How about you, boys?’
2011, Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, page 27:
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