paint-sprayv.
/ˈpeɪntspreɪ/, U.S. /ˈpeɪntˌspreɪ/ transitive. To spray using a paint spray.
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society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > other painting processes
to lay off1901
roller coat1935
paint-spray1967
rag-roll1969
1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iii. 99 Almost all products of this kind..are glazed by spraying, in much the same way as car bodies are paint-sprayed.
1985 Times 5 Mar. 12/2 On those shutters someone..has paint-sprayed the word ‘Jokeshop’.
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ˈpaint-sprayed adj.
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1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/6 Dundee's modern shopping precinct has now been further decorated with paint-sprayed gang slogans.
1997 A. Smith Like (2001) 11 The rubble and refuse of an abandoned building site behind a row of houses and some shops, boarded up, paint-sprayed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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