Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "spray-on".
In 1948, Herbert Levine developed an inexpensive, lightweight, spray-on insulation composed of asbestos and rock wool, which played a key part in the postwar office-tower construction boom.
Sue was wearing an off-the-bosom chlamys with what seemed to be nothing more than a spray-on on the revealed side.
Tommys in hunter camo and chaste Christers, twists in chains and spray-on, clumps of sisters wearing the uniforms of a group marriage, a couple of furries and one girl wearing a body suit that looked just like bot skin.
In the Real World, Jay sat in his office at Net Force HQ, part of the almost four-hundred-acre FBI compound at Quantico, plugged into full wirelessware haptics, including top-of-the-line optics, otics, reekers, droolers, and the brand-new version of spray-on WeatherMesh, which could be set and controlled by your computer to plus-or- minus one degree Fahrenheit, and none of the Madrid afternoon was the least bit real.
The spray-on hair coloring gave her tresses a lovely dark shade of green.
Near the airport, the first of the happy-hour hookers had started her shift, complete with leopards king bomber jacket, sparkly silver spray-on pants, and the world's highest white platform boots.
There were all kinds of clothes in the Queendom, including spray-on, wrap-on, and clothes that looked like a ball of putty until you stepped on them or smacked them with your fist, at which point they came alive and sort of straitjacketed themselves around you, taking on some stylish cut and color.