spray gun

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The new colorants come in a powdered form that Cypris Materials says can be incorporated into manufacturing processes—added to paint in an automotive spray gun, for example, or mixed into nail polish.

From Scientific American • Nov. 13, 2020

Rick bought a $14 spray gun from Harbor Freight and watched a bunch of car-painting videos online.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2020

Politics aside, the dead Daniel Radcliffe movie Swiss Army Man was, at first, a messy spray gun of fart jokes and wimpy why-can’t-I-get-the-girl chauvinism.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2017

Stryker and Zimmer are large producers of orthopedic pulsed lavage devices, a combination spray gun and suction tube that is used to clean wounds and tissue during surgery.

From Reuters • Aug. 8, 2013

Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson