Silly Putty

Trademark.

1. a brand of children's claylike modeling substance that can be shaped, stretched, rolled into a ball and bounced, etc.

Example Sentences

The business of the North American Toy Fair, an annual showcase of the latest in silly putty, monster trucks and board games, is fun.

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Because I always think it looks like Silly Putty.

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"Is rift formation more like glass breaking or like Silly Putty being pulled apart? That was the question," Olinger said.

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Now researchers at Stanford University have shown that another biophysical characteristic known as viscoelasticity -- think of how stretching a ball of Silly Putty or a clump of bread dough is met at first with resistance, and then with release -- is even more tightly correlated with liver cancer than stiffness, particularly in people with Type 2 diabetes.

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The strain at times is monstrous, hilariously so, as the actor squeezes her face into a ball of Silly Putty, her nose collapsing into her eyes as they all fall into the maw of her mouth.

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