plastic fantastic

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plastic fantastic (plural plastic fantastics)

  1. (informal) A fibreglass boat.
    • 1986, Motorboating, volume 158, number 1, page 90:
      The boat designs (with their fiberglass construction-the “Plastic Fantastics”) showed great speed in a breeze in the Worlds, but suffered in lighter airs.
    • 2013, Lynn Michell, Shooting Stars are the Flying Fish of the Night:
      Charter boats are what we call 'plastic fantastics' – all from the same mould – and anyway, chartering is so expensive […]
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