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body paint

body paint noun: paint applied directly onto a person's skin, often as a form of body art.

Noun

body paint (countable and uncountable, plural body paints)

  1. Paint applied directly onto a person's skin, often as a form of body art.
    • This was part of Ms. Ovalles’s daily routine as a desnuda, a Spanish word meaning naked that has been embraced by the women who strut around the Times Square pedestrian plaza topless and covered in body paint to pose for photos in exchange for tips.2015 August 14, Collen Wright, “The Desnudas of Times Square, Topless but for the Paint”, in The New York Times
    • There's still a trace of body paint / On your legs and on your arms and on your face2022, Alex Turner, “Body Paint”, in The Car (album), performed by Arctic Monkeys

Forms of body paint

pluralbody paints

Questions about body paint

What does body paint mean?
Body paint means paint applied directly onto a person's skin, often as a form of body art.
What part of speech is body paint?
Body paint is a noun.
What is the plural of body paint?
The plural of body paint is body paints.

Words near body paint in the dictionary

  1. body of me
  2. body of water
  3. body of work
  4. body pack
  5. body packing
  6. body paint
  7. body painter
  8. body painters
  9. body painting
  10. body paintings
  11. body paints

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