paint the tape

verb

To engage in tape painting; to engage in wash trades.

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Meanings

verbpaint the tape (third-person singular simple present paints the tape, present participle painting the tape, simple past and past participle painted the tape)

present singular third person paints the tape · participle present painting the tape · participle past painted the tape · past painted the tape

  1. To engage in tape painting; to engage in wash trades.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paint, tape.
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