plyboard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of plyboard
First recorded in 1910–15; ply 2 ( def. ) + board ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Soon after, the plyboard installed over the front of Gunther’s was covered in messages scrawled in chalk.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2017
The bride’s father, a carpenter, disassembled a greenhouse at work and saved supplies, including 2-by-6s and plyboard.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 17, 2016
Their first basketball hoop was a plyboard and a tire rim nailed to an oak tree.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2016
When the object of his attentions is the plyboard flimsiness of present-day America, this is a very fine thing; when the object of his attentions is Vera, this is a waste.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
Everyone was either clustered around the stereo or the seven-foot-tall piece of plyboard, propped up on the lawn, which had been painted to look like the scoreboard.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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