body paint

noun

Definition of body paint

: paint applied to a person's body Her new outfit, a leopard-skin pants suit, seemed as skintight as Superman's blue-and-red ensemble: every midriff curve curved, every leg muscle flexed … . After a few turns, some observers noticed that the spots were not painted on fabric but skin. Her suit was body paint. —Matthew Crowley, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 19 Mar. 1997 Aborigines in white body paint danced and sang traditional songs in Australia's national Parliament on Tuesday in a historic ceremony many hoped would mark a new era of race relations in the country. —Rod McGuirk, Associated Press, 12 Feb. 2008

Other words from body paint

body-paint transitive verb body-painted; body-painting; body-paints

Halfway through the first quarter, high up in the stands, an undergraduate skinned off his shirt and … a young woman body-painted something unprintable about Harvard onto his shoulder blades. —Paul Hendrickson, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 1983

body-painted adjective

… surrounded by their usual assortment of exuberant, body-painted fans. —Bill Bryant, Huntsville (Alabama) Times, 3 Mar. 2012

body painting or less commonly body-painting noun

They wore clothing of finely-tanned skins and adorned themselves with tattooing and body painting. —Barbara A. Leitch, A Concise Dictionary of Indian Tribes, 1979