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paint
verb- to apply make up UK, 1382
- [H]er brown hair was as tousled as a lamb’s tail, and her unpainted face was drawn with sleep. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 8, 1952
- If you are (tell the truth!) the only girl your age within a fifty-mile radius who is not permitted to paint yourself as well as the town red, you have reason to gripe. — Dick Clark, To Goof or Not to Goof, p. 97, 1963
- Their women don’t paint themselves. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 293, 1967
- in lowball poker, to draw a face card to a hand of four low cards US
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 269, 1967
- in hearts, to play a heart on a non-heart trick US
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of gambling and gaming, 1987
- to mark a target with laser beams US
Gulf war usage. - — American Speech, p. 397, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
▶ paint the barnto apply makeup CANADA - — Bill Casselman, Canadian Sayings, p. 37, 2002
▶ paint the busto change something’s appearance without changing its basic foundations US - — Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords, p. 122, 1974
▶ paint the town red
to have a raucous time on the town US, 1884- Let’s go out and paint old cow town red. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 83, 1952
- I drank liquor, smoked marijuana, painted the Big Apple red with increasing numbers of friends[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 78, 1964
- Yet there were thousands of girls living between Sunset and Santa Monica in between La Brea and La Cienega who painted the town red like me–and who got away with it. — Eve Babitz, L.A. Woman, p. 137, 1982
- James Boyer suggests that if I really want to paint the town red, I should try Bracknell. — The Guardian, 20 February 2003
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