spackle

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... and all it takes is some spackle, a $50 5-gallon bucket of Antique White and a weekend to turn it back to what it was before.

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  1. powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster

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  • The lone painter here was a Japanese, as compact and burly as a miniature sumo, working high up on a spackle-encrusted ladder. —  Black Blade
  • Seal the areas where the spackle was applied with a coat of primer.
  • ... and all it takes is some spackle, a $50 5-gallon bucket of Antique White and a weekend to turn it back to what it was before. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • 46. spackle: Count Spacula False Spackle fills holes while Dracula drills them; no wonder he pretends to be counted as highly. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
  • ZAHN: It's called spackle. —  CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2005
 

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