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grease-paint

grease-paint is the alternative form of greasepaint.

Meaning of greasepaint

Noun

greasepaint (countable and uncountable, plural greasepaints)

  1. A mixture of grease and coloring matter used as theatrical makeup.

Forms of grease-paint

pluralgrease-paints

Questions about grease-paint

What is grease-paint the alternative form of?
Grease-paint is the alternative form of greasepaint.

Words near grease-paint in the dictionary

  1. grease the skids
  2. grease the wheels
  3. grease up
  4. grease-monkey
  5. grease-monkeys
  6. grease-paint
  7. grease-painted
  8. grease-paints
  9. grease-pot
  10. grease-pots
  11. greaseable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grease-paint (page history and authors); greasepaint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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