makeup:

Or: make-up :

1. Cosmetics.

2. Cosmetics applied to the face .

QUOTES:

(1) Stand-up comic Buddy Young, Jr. (Billy Crystal) to a heavily made up lady in an audience of senior citizens in Mr. Saturday Night (1992): ' It's lovely makeup. Who put it on? The Ringling Brothers? Looks like an opera broke out on your face . You got too close when the Avon lady exploded? '

(2) Rebecca/Tank Girl (Lori Petty) holding the Madam hostage in Tank Girl (1994): ' Now, everybody drop your guns or I scrape off all her makeup... This might take me a really long time .'

See Also: constitution, gender, make up, makeup, tart, vampish, vampy

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