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respray

British  

verb

  1. to spray (a car, wheels, etc) with a new coat of paint

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noun

  1. the act or an instance of respraying

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In 2013 Apple chose to respray its OS while chose to recode Android from the bottom up to run smoothly on budget smartphones.

From Forbes • Mar. 21, 2014

The decision to turn this historical respray into a sort of fantasy-sci-fi-crime turducken is the key to its appalling brilliance.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013

Instead of laughing at someone else's joke, they tend to say: "That's funny," and then squirrel the joke away, ready for a crafty respray at some time in the future.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2010

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