trade paint
English
Etymology
When a car or similar vehicle bumps into or scrapes another car, some of the paint may come off.
Verb
trade paint (third-person singular simple present trades paint, present participle trading paint, simple past and past participle traded paint)
- make physical contact between two motorized vehicles while driving
- 1971, Hot Rod, volume 24, Trend, page 38:
- Petty kept his place at the the[sic] pack, and Allison traded paint with Isaac.
- 1997, Leila Hadley, A Journey with Elsa Cloud, Books & Company/Turtle Point, →ISBN, page 500:
- Then the bus is gone, juddering past us by such a narrow margin I feel we have “traded paint,” as Robert would have said.
- 1998, Shaun Assael, Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 301:
- John Andretti was in front of Sterling, who cared no more for John than Bobby did. How long before they traded paint?
- 2001, Triumph, Dale Earnhardt: Remembering the Intimidator, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 37:
- He and friend Jeff Gordon "traded paint" at one point during the race. And then there were several instances when The Intimidator nudged rookies Ron Hornaday and Kurt Busch.
- 2005, Road & Track - Volume 56, CBS Publications, page 160:
- Not since the 1970s when the best drivers from America traded paint with the elite of Europe have we seen a more remarkable display of driving.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trade, paint.
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