like a plasterer's radio

adj

Etymology

The portable radios used by plasterers and other builders while working tend to end up thickly covered in plaster and paint.

Definitions

  1. Thickly covered with some substance.

    • A track mark ran down through his remaining chest hair like a napalm strike in a Vietnamese jungle, and the flaking skin of his Latin torso now looked like a plasterer's radio.
    • It was an epic run to Montalcino, with Cadel Evans leading home a field of dancing statues: the rain left the entire peloton looking like a plasterer's radio by the end.
    • There was one blagger, another fucking Londoner called Mad Mikey, who'd parked his motor down at Leith Docks and came back to see it covered in seagull shit, looked like a plasterer's radio, and that was it for him.

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