trade paint
trade paint verb: to make physical contact with another motorized vehicles while driving.
Verb
trade paint (third-person singular simple present trades paint, present participle trading paint, simple past and past participle traded paint)
- To make physical contact with another motorized vehicles while driving.
- Petty kept his place at the the^([sic]) pack, and Allison traded paint with Isaac.1971, Hot Rod, volume 24, Trend, page 38
- Then the bus is gone, juddering past us by such a narrow margin I feel we have “traded paint,” as Robert would have said.1997, Leila Hadley, A Journey with Elsa Cloud, Books & Company/Turtle Point, →ISBN, page 500
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trade, paint.
Forms of trade paint
| third-person singular present | trades paint |
|---|---|
| present participle | trading paint |
| past participle | traded paint |
| past | traded paint |
Origin of trade paint
When a car or similar vehicle bumps into or scrapes another car, some of the paint may come off.
Questions about trade paint
- What does trade paint mean?
- Trade paint means to make physical contact with another motorized vehicles while driving.
- What part of speech is trade paint?
- Trade paint is a verb.
- What is the past tense of trade paint?
- The past tense of trade paint is traded paint.
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