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)
Further reading
Spredge is a portmanteau word, a blend of sprayed and edge, and refers to decorative spraying of the edges of book pages, a trend in book design. These are historically similar to fore-edge paintings. This is part of a complete episode.
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