Pressboard

[Sarah]

A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containinga small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally,as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

[Sarah]

A cheap-ass mixture of wood pulp that has been solidified and glued together with the cheapest stuff you can find on the market and then given cheap, easily-breakable plastic to cover the front and sides and sold in place of all forms of wood these days.