Definitions for lackers

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lackers lack·er

Spelling: [lak-er]

IPA: /ˈlæk ər/

Lackers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in lackers (aceklrs).

Definitions for lackers

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 lackers

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

Examples for lackers

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.

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

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

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