plastic fantastic

noun

A fibreglass boat.

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Meanings

nounplastic fantastic (plural plastic fantastics)

plural plastic fantastics

  1. informalA fibreglass boat.

    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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    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
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