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- noun   Attributive form of spray can 
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								In fact, although it pains me to admit it, panna cotta is an altogether more elegant dessert than blancmange, served in teeny tiny espresso-sized portions with fresh fruit, rather than in great rabbit-shaped blobs topped with spray-can cream. 
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								Elizabeth Economy, a neighbor of Mr. Van Doren's whose townhouse was tastefully decorated with a ghoul, two skeletons and an abundance of red and white spray-can cobwebs, agrees. Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010 
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								For a cool, professional look, tape off the bottom inch of the pipe and paint all three pieces with spray-can bed liner. Workshop: Snorkel Installation Cassandra 2009 
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								The universal trademark characteristics of the genre are everywhere in evidence: the monstrous exaggerations, spaced-out fragmentations, one-liner social commentary, sci-fi flights of fantasy and spray-can gradations and drips. 
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								For people like me who are lazy about applying tags to describe photos, Lightroom offers a spray-can tool to virtually "paint" keywords on bunches of photos at one time. 
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								You can take comfort from the fact that there isn't a spray-can in sight. Moose (aka Paul Curtis) and Marc Cameron's innovation: eco graffiti Lucy Siegle 2010 
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								On a broader level, it's the first movie to deeply chronicle the street art of such global spray-can and stencil toting Robin Hoods (to loosely quote Guetta) as Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Space Invader. 
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								On a broader level, it's the first movie to deeply chronicle the street art of such global spray-can and stencil toting Robin Hoods to loosely quote Guetta as Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Space Invader. Shana Ting Lipton: Banksy's Film Exit Through the Gift Shop : A Street Art Morality Play Without Morals Shana Ting Lipton 2010 
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								The silhouette of Sandino appears on every wall, an image of spray-can defiance. 
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								On a broader level, it's the first movie to deeply chronicle the street art of such global spray-can and stencil toting Robin Hoods (to loosely quote Guetta) as Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Space Invader. Banksy's Film Exit Through the Gift Shop : A Street Art Morality Play Without Morals 2010 
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