plastics

Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.

a credit card, or credit cards collectively, usually made of plastic: He had a whole pocketful of plastic.

money, payment, or credit represented by the use of a credit card or cards.

something, or a group of things, made of or resembling plastic: The entire meal was served on plastic.

made of plastic.

capable of being molded or of receiving form: clay and other plastic substances.

produced by molding: plastic figures.

having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material: the plastic forces of nature.

being able to create, especially within an art form; having the power to give form or formal expression: the plastic imagination of great poets and composers.