spray paint

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noun

: paint that is sprayed onto a surface from a hand-held can
a can of spray paint

spray-paint

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verb

spray-painted; spray-painting; spray-paints
: to paint (something) with paint that is sprayed from a can or sprayer

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Noun
The group used black spray paint to cover surveillance camera lenses inside the store. Max Levy, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2025 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
Verb
The 47-year-old man is accused of spray-painting two churches and a synagogue with profane messages in January and February. City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025 Also this year, German artist Katharina Grosse will spray-paint the city’s Messeplatz in her signature chromatic style. News Desk, Artforum, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spray paint

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“Spray paint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spray%20paint. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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