: 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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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
Sometimes the Flock license-plate reader cameras were sprayed with pink spray paint; other times they were struck with bats, hit with BB guns, or simply unscrewed.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
News Desk, Artforum, 8 May 2026
Swastikas were also found spray-painted on the garage door of a private home, the window of another home and on the door of a gray sedan, all within six blocks of each other.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
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Noun
The vandals sprayed their hate messages with black and red spray paint.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
Sometimes the Flock license-plate reader cameras were sprayed with pink spray paint; other times they were struck with bats, hit with BB guns, or simply unscrewed.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
Gaypalani Waṉambi won the AU$50,000 Wynne Prize, given annually for a landscape painting or figurative sculpture depicting Australian scenery, for The Waṉambi tree, an abstract spray-paint-on-steel work.
—News Desk, Artforum, 8 May 2026
Swastikas were also found spray-painted on the garage door of a private home, the window of another home and on the door of a gray sedan, all within six blocks of each other.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
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“Spray paint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spray%20paint. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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