Styrofoam
[stahy-ruh-fohm]
- a brand of expanded plastic made from polystyrene.
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All meals are packed (abundantly) into Styrofoam containers and bagged with plastic utensils.
The man who kindly made my meal in less than three minutes opened the styrofoam container and pointed: “Only lemons.”
School-age children with rumbling tummies move their styrofoam trays in an orderly lunch line.
According to The Daily Mail, a 40-foot styrofoam replica of Westwood was supposed to be on view, but Wintour ruled against it.
Jennifer Lawrence Gets ‘Chopped’; Viktor & Rolf Return to CoutureThe Fashion Beast Team
April 22, 2013
The tsunami debris is different, not just because it comes from Japan, but because it includes “a huge amount of Styrofoam.”
Styrofoam
- trademark (sometimes not capital) a light, expanded polystyrene plastic
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Word Origin
C20: from polystyrene + foam
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Word Origin and History for styrofoam
Styrofoam
n.
1950, trademark name (Dow Chemical Co.), from (poly)styr(ene) (see polystyrene) + -o- + foam (n.).
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