spray gun

noun

1. a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.

spray gun

noun

1. a device that sprays a fluid in a finely divided form by atomizing the fluid in an air jet

Word History and Origins

Origin of spray gun¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

“Those were cut down and melted, made into ingots, then made into a wire that goes into a special spray gun that transforms aluminum into paint,” Gioni said.

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Addison describes how giant spray guns shoot 200 gallons of waste per minute into the air, noxious stuff with “a strange muddy-pink color to it” that tends to “drift like a cloud on the breeze.”

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As the biker pleads for his life, sputtering apologies, the menacing figure puts an exterminator’s spray gun in the biker’s mouth and pulls the trigger, poisoning him to death.

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Her achievement passes not only through urbanism and protest, but through acrylic, ink, spray guns, tracing paper.

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Tram rides are capped at 25, and the lift is sanitized with a spray gun after every other ride.

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