Definition of "spray" []

• Water or other liquid moving in a mass of dispersed droplets, as from a wave. (noun)
• A fine jet of liquid discharged from a pressurized container. (noun)
• A pressurized container; an atomizer. (noun)
• Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner. (noun)
• To disperse (a liquid) in a mass or jet of droplets. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Bear pepper spray is a highly concentrated capsaicin spray that creates a large cloud."
• "You may see them sit down together, sort of a brief -- what we call a spray, you go in and just take a quick picture and get out."
• "A few years ago, our school had a parent write a racist remark on his garage in spray paint and called the local paper who published a picture of it and the man's biracial son trying to spin the article as if students and the school were harrasing his son."