: paint that is sprayed onto a surface from a hand-held can
a can of spray paint
spray-painted; spray-painting; spray-paints
: to paint (something) with paint that is sprayed from a can or sprayer
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Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
The synagogue was one of two houses of worship in the Bankers Hill area that were vandalized with similar phrases and black spray paint over the weekend.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Recent happenings across the globe—from Australia to Canada—have reported concerning incidents including swastika vandalism being spray-painted on a synagogue.
—Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Bernhardt, who starts with spray paint on upright canvases, then puts them on the floor and adds watery acrylics, which give her work its drippy panache, chalks it up to plain coincidence, though of course there’s nothing plain about what either of them do.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2025
The synagogue was one of two houses of worship in the Bankers Hill area that were vandalized with similar phrases and black spray paint over the weekend.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
No one takes the science fair as seriously as Morton, as indicated by his having to spray-paint an old basketball trophy as a prize, and his insufferable personality doesn’t sway the teachers’ apathy.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Recent happenings across the globe—from Australia to Canada—have reported concerning incidents including swastika vandalism being spray-painted on a synagogue.
—Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Spray paint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spray%20paint. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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