paint

Related to paint: Paint program

paint card

slang In poker, a face card (a jack, queen, or king). Don't go putting up big bets just because you got a couple paint cards early on in the game. They could be totally useless if you're unlucky on the flop.
See also: card, paint

the paint

slang In basketball, the rectangular area directly beneath and in front of the basket, ending with the free-throw line. Officially known as the free throw lane. He's scored more points in the paint than any other NBA player this season. We've got to keep working the ball to the paint.
See also: paint
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

paint

1. n. a tattoo. (The same as ink sense 3) When dya get the new paint?
2. n. tattoos in general; the amount of tattooing on someone’s body. (The same as ink sense 4) He’s got paint covering his back!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) close as two coats of paint
  • (as) exciting as watching paint dry
  • (as) smart as paint
  • a (new) lick of paint
  • a fresh lick of paint
  • a lick of paint
  • a picture paints a thousand words
  • another coat of paint
  • back/paint somebody/yourself into a corner
  • be like painting the Forth Bridge
  • be like watching paint dry
  • close as two coats of paint
  • Do I have to paint (you) a picture?
  • Do I have to paint a picture?
  • Do I have to paint you a picture?
  • Do I have to spell it out?
  • Do I need to paint (you) a picture?
  • exciting as watching paint dry
  • go out and paint the town red
  • like watching paint dry
  • one picture paints a thousand words
  • paint
  • paint (one) black
  • paint (oneself) into a corner
  • paint (someone or something) with the same brush
  • paint (something) onto (something)
  • paint (something) with a broad brush
  • paint a (some kind of) picture of (something)
  • paint a black picture (of someone or something)
  • paint a terrible, depressing, rosy, etc. picture
  • paint black
  • paint card
  • paint in
  • paint on
  • paint oneself into a corner
  • paint onto
  • paint out
  • paint over
  • paint remover
  • paint something with a broad brush
  • paint the black
  • paint the devil on the wall
  • paint the Forth Bridge
  • paint the lily
  • paint the town
  • paint the town (red)
  • paint the town red
  • paint the town red, to
  • paint thinner
  • paint yourself into a corner
  • painted with the same brush
  • spatter around
  • spatter on (someone or something)
  • the paint
  • tonsil paint
  • war paint
  • watching paint dry
References in periodicals archive
The Paint-Savers re-usable air-free paint storage container comes with a special label that enables keeping an exact record of the type of paint being stored.
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3 Wiggle into corners Wiggling the brush a little bit helps the paint release into tight corners.
Top ten tips
* Overall paint value market is estimated at 26,040 INR Crs for FY 2011-12.
Indian paint market expected to reach 49,545 INR Crs by 2016-2017: IPA study
"It provides a solution for everyone - to take back the paint itself, and turn it into other paint that people can use."
PAINT, REPAINT
The paint pigment in off paint is suspended in the solvent.
What you need to know before your next paint job
Now you are ready to paint the surfaces you have prepped.
Q & A: paint restoration
What did it mean at the start of the '90s to show a picture claiming to be 100 percent "obsessed," "spiritual," and "painted"?
Peripheral vision: Isabelle Graw on the art of Jutta Koether
On the next page, you can see me, at three different ages, with my favorite painted image, the butterfly.
The art of face painting
In fact, the model used in that study also included paint lead and paint condition as variables.
Sources of blood lead in children
By pouring a constant stream of paint directly out of a can, he produced a continuous trajectory, a web of crisscrossing trajectories, filled with energy and motion and reminiscent of organic shapes, trees, woods, designs of increasing complexity--nature's fingerprint as seen from his back porch in East Hampton.
Oneness, complexity, and the distribution of disease
- Reduces CO2 emissions during paint manufacture by 8.8 tons per year.
Mazda Adopts More Eco-Friendly Painting Process
Viewed in cross-section, the paint can be seen to contain round silica particles 4 microns to 8 microns in diameter that were mixed with red pigments known as lakes.
Venetian grinds: the secret behind Italian Renaissance painters' brilliant palettes
A gallon of latex-based paint generally covers 350 to 400 square feet.
Many factors affect amount of paint needed
Contained in this bill is a presumption that in a building built before 1960, where a child under seven years of age resides, any peeling paint is presumed to be lead paint.
City's new lead paint law will set industry back years
Yellow paint, NSN 8010-00-900-3648, has been the paint of choice for years.
Safe paint cleans up easy