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Teflon

[ tef-lon ]

Trademark.
  1. a fluorocarbon polymer with slippery, nonsticking properties; polytetrafluoroethylene.


adjective

  1. characterized by imperviousness to blame or criticism:

    a Teflon politician.

Teflon

/ ˈtɛflɒn /

noun

  1. polytetrafluoroethylene, when used in nonstick cooking vessels
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. facetious.
    denoting the ability to evade blame

    the Teflon president

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Playing around in his lab in search of a cheaper way to make plumber’s tape from Teflon, he stretched that material out while heated and found that he’d created a very thin membrane with billions of microscopic pores in every square inch.

Teflon is a chemical coating that keeps food from sticking to pots and pans.

The 53-year-old actor and director is Hollywood Teflon, liked and respected by all.

We are talking not of a Teflon Rupert, a man against whom nothing sticks.

For Jeter and/or his team of representatives, that criticism is going to slide away like he was made of pure Teflon.

Consider the steady-handed neurosurgeon with the outsized ego, the larger-than-life CEO, and, yes, the Teflon-coated politician.

However, those scratching their heads over what happened to the once-Teflon Mad Men are missing the point.

We don't know the formula yet, but it is as much more stable than our teflon as teflon is than corn-meal mush.

That much the Kedy brains, molded solidly into teflon-lined, massively braced steel spheres, could just withstand.

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