pulling the plastic
n.— «Pulling the plastic: Indoor wall climbing.» —“Why indoor rock climbing is the height of fashion” by Sharon Doyle Driedger Maclean’s (Can.) Sept. 18, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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