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oops paint
 n.— «I scour around places like Home Depot or Scotty’s,…and I buy their “oops” paint…you know, mixing accidents. I pick it up cheap, and when you need 750 gallons of paint, cheap is nice.» —“Hitching a dream to a rural railroad” by Jan Glidewell St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Apr. 19, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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