spray n.
1. (US Mex. teen) lighter fluid used as an intoxicant .
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Always Running (1996) 102: Spray was dangerous [...] while on spray I yelled, I laughed, I clawed at the evening sky. |
2. (Aus.) a voluble (and boring) conversation; thus a scolding.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Fatty 227: ‘We pointed him out and he went over and gave him the biggest spray you’ve ever heard’. | |
| Bug (Aus.) 14 Apr. 🌐 Using the Fatty, er.... I mean Footy Show for his latest spray about his fellow commontattas in the media was a tad hypocritical. | |
| Bug (Aus.) Nov.–Dec. 🌐 Or, don’t even bother to ask him, he’ll give you a spray on every conceivable vaguely-rugby topic, anyway. | |
| Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] [He] gave me the kind of spray usually reserved for the parking inspector. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US teen) one who inhales the fumes of spray paint.
| 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 141: They’re known as sprayheads. You fill a soda can with gold or silver paint, put a pop-top in the bottom, or a piece of glass or a rock, and shake it around to keep the paint from drying up, then suck it in. You trip. |
(US gay) a fig. substance that keeps heterosexual wrists from drooping.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |