body paint

noun

Paint applied directly onto a person's skin, often as a form of body art.

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Meanings

nounbody paint (countable and uncountable, plural body paints)

plural body paints

  1. countableuncountablePaint applied directly onto a person's skin, often as a form of body art.

    There's still a trace of body paint / On your legs and on your arms and on your face

    2022, Alex Turner, “Body Paint”, in The Car (album), performed by Arctic Monkeys
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    This was part of Ms. Ovalles’s daily routine as a desnuda, a Spanish word meaning naked that has been embraced by the women who strut around the Times Square pedestrian plaza topless and covered in body paint to pose for photos in exchange for tips.

    2015 August 14, Collen Wright, “The Desnudas of Times Square, Topless but for the Paint”, in The New York Times

Translations

Hungarian testfesték
  • testfestékpaint applied directly onto a person's skin
Cite this entry
APA

body paint. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/body%20paint

MLA

“body paint.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/body%20paint. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “body paint,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/body%20paint.

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