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nail polish remover

n. A solvent used to remove nail polish, usually mostly acetone.

Usage examples of "nail polish remover".

He lifted the briefcase onto his lap and felt around inside for the old glue bottle that contained his most extreme deliriant, a sudsy composite of lighter fluid, paint thinner, airplane glue, nail polish remover and several types of aerosol propellant.

To kill them, take a paintbrush dipped in methylated spirits or nail polish remover, and swab it onto each one, being careful not to touch the plant.

Xris shoved aside a vial of nail polish remover that was sitting in a docking bay, and began.

For what was my mood except reluctance to return upstairs to the crowded smoky third-floor room to which I'd been assigned because my roommate, who chain-smoked Chesterfields and lived in a giddy clutter of clothes, nail polish (and nail polish remover that smelled virulent as a chemical defoliant), tubes of greasy lipstick, makeup in jars, and mimeographed course outlines from her education courses, would be there, and other Kappas would be lounging in the doorway or sprawled across my bed, exhaling smoke with the luxurious abandon of girls away from adult scrutiny, tapping ashes in the vague direction of a communal ashtray with a plastic hula girl at its center.

Besides the little bottle of nail polish remover, there was an emery board and two metal files.

As we pass each front door of the twenty-odd homes that make up the longhouse, we are offered a drink of tuak, homemade moonshine that would probably do wonders as nail polish remover.

It took a liberal application of nail polish remover to get even small sections of the concrete blocks clean enough to take a definition.