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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 monkey
  2. grease monkeys
  3. grease nipple
  4. grease nipples
  5. grease one's gills
  6. grease paint
  7. grease paints
  8. grease payment
  9. grease payments
  10. grease pencil
  11. grease pencils

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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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