noun
drywall
DREYE-wawl
noun
1
A building material made of gypsum board used for walls and ceilings.
"The contractor put up drywall in the new bedroom in a single afternoon."
verb
1
To install and finish this material on a wall or ceiling.
"They hired someone to drywall the basement before winter."
How to Use Drywall
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe sheet material (or the process of fitting it) used to build interior walls, instead of wet plaster.
UK vs US
Mainly an American term; British English usually says "plasterboard".
Word Forms
drywalled past tense, drywalls plural, drywalls singular
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Etymology
From dry + wall — so named because, unlike wet plaster, it goes up without needing to dry on-site.