body-paint

See also: body paint

English

Verb

body-paint (third-person singular simple present body-paints, present participle body-painting, simple past and past participle body-painted)

1. (transitive) To paint (something) on a person's skin.
   • 2012 July 22, Jon Pareles, “Thundering Mosh Pits and All the Free Hugs a Teenager Would Want”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     At this point, it’s an institution, with a coterie of recurring performers and its own crowd rituals — among them offers of “free hugs” body-painted on people’s chests. For all its clamor and its ritualized, channeled aggression, Warped is pretty wholesome.

2. (transitive) To apply body paint onto the skin of (someone).
   • 2016, Yasser Usman, Rekha: The Untold Story, New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, →ISBN, page 59:

     In front of the fair Nischol, Rekha appeared dark. Such a heroine was considered unacceptable. ‘I was standing for an hour while someone body-painted me from head to toe. Because in those days, heroines were required to be fair. In the north they have this fairness hang-up. They painted all the junior artists white in all of D. Ramanaidu films,’³ Rekha said.