silicone

plural silicones

1. countableuncountablechemistryAny 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

present singular third person silicones · participle present siliconing · participle past siliconed · past siliconed

1. transitiveTo join or treat (something) with a silicone-based product.

   silicone the bathtub to the tile

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   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

2. informaltransitiveTo 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

1. not comparableslangHaving had cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement.

   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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   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