plastered

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I get where they're coming from, but the solutions aren't particularly thrifty: last week a lady spent about £6000 getting her flat re-plastered, which is quite a lot of money really.

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  1. adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.

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  • His knees were plastered, his hands and arms bedaubed, and his face well smeared. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
  • You almost get my sisters hauled into court and our good name plastered all over the news. —  AHMM, April 2002
  • Its walls were lathed but not plastered, and from our apartment we had an extended view of the entire floor. —  The World As I Have Found It
  • The walls are plastered, and the room moderately lighted. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • Although it has Andy Warhol's name plastered all over it, it's writer / director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier that bring this monster film, stitched together by sexed-up gore, satire, and confused accents, to life. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews
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plastered:   plaster ·  plastering ·  plasters
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