Definitions for lacker

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lacker lack·er

Spelling: [lak-er]

IPA: /ˈlæk ər/

Lacker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in lacker (aceklr).

Definitions for lacker

noun

1. a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
2. any of various resinous varnishes, especially a resinous varnish obtained from a Japanese tree, Rhus verniciflua, used to produce a highly polished, lustrous surface on wood or the like.
3. Also called lacquer ware, lacquerware. ware, especially of wood, coated with such a varnish, and often inlaid:
4. Slang. any volatile solvent that produces euphoria when inhaled.

verb (used with object)

1. to coat with lacquer.
2. to cover, as with facile or fluent words or explanations cleverly worded, etc.; obscure the faults of; gloss (often followed by over):

noun, verb (used with object)

1. lacquer.

Origin of lacker

1570-80; earlier leckar, laker Portuguese lacre, lacar, unexplained variant of laca Arabic lakk Persian lâk lac¹

Examples for lacker

What's the use of a lot of tinsel and lacker, if the real metal isn't there?

Ovid however had no intention that young women should lacker themselves.

Get them home for fifty shillings, say There was a deal of gold, and lacker, and varnish about them.

Lacquer, lacker, lak′ėr, n. a varnish made of lac and alcohol.

He supposes that, to redeem his name, he has only got to lacker it.