British and Irish informal adjective or noun for 'plastic', used in casual speech across the UK and Ireland. It can refer literally to plastic materials (a placcy bag) or figuratively to something fake, cheap, or inauthentic. The word is unpretentious and widely understood, particularly in Northern England and Ireland.
She handed him a placcy bag full of recyclables and pointed to the bin.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, Ireland, slang) plastic.
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