plastic foam

noun

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To make one for yourself, hot glue two rows of hemlock pinecones around the base of a 14-inch-tall plastic foam cone. Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2024 The Rotary Club of Southwest Austin collects clean plastic foam on the first Saturday of the month at the Burger Center farmers market. Asher Price, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024 Volunteers for the project receive Styrofoam from community members, clean it and make trips on the same day to dispose of the plastic foam at the recycling center. Isabela Ocampo Restrepo, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Aug. 2024 Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand. Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for plastic foam 

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of plastic foam was in 1943

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“Plastic foam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plastic%20foam. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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