Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - spray paint

also spray-paint (spray paints, spray painting, spray painted) 1. Spray paint is paint bought in a special can which you spray on a surface by pressing a button on the top of the can. The walls have been horribly vandalized with spray paint. N-MASS 2. If you spray paint a surface, you paint it using spray paint. If you spray paint something on a surface, you paint it on that surface using spray paint. The youths are taught how to spray paint cars and mend fences... He spray-painted his name on the wall. VERB: V n, V n on n