| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Sheetrock |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Sheet·rock |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  sh t r k |
| A trademark used for plasterboard. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase: “[It] is excellent for installing lights, installing ceiling tile, taping sheetrock . . . and other jobs” (Engineering News-Record). It also occurs as a verb: “We're going to sheetrock the ceiling” (New York Times).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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