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, Ireland, slang) plastic.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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