adj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
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"[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."
"silicone the bathtub to the tile"
"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?’"
"Besides, the bevy of silicone beauties surrounding him would have been difficult, not to mention ego-crushing, to wade through."
"Tsuji says he uses resin, platinum and silicone as well as other materials to construct three-dimensional portraits of people such as Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali."
Any 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.
Common synonyms include: silicone polymer, mucilage, mucus, polysiloxane-based, silicone compound, silicone elastomer.
Tsuji says he uses resin, platinum and silicone as well as other materials to construct three-dimensional portraits of people such as Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali.
Pronounced /ˈsɪlɪkəʊn/.
From silicon + -one. Originally obtained by the attempted synthesis of the silicon equivalent of a ketone.