Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soft paste intended for application to the face before shaving. It is usually made of high-grade cold-process soap free from excess of alkali, often with addition of glycerin and a little cocoanut-oil to facilitate lathering, and of scenting and coloring materials.
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Examples
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It's almost cliché now that a shaving-cream pie in the face will follow a game-winning hit.
Baseball's Pastime: Pranking Scott Cacciola 2011
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Separately, the man who interrupted Rupert Murdoch 's recent parliamentary committee testimony wielding a shaving-cream pie was sentenced Tuesday to six weeks in prison.
Police Question a Former Editor in Hacking Probe Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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He appeared on numerous TV shows such as What's My Line and spontaneously created a shaving-cream drawing for his ostentatious entrance on I've Got a Secret.
Jerry Chautin: Salvador Dali: Virtuoso Artist or Clever Marketer? 2010
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He's The Pie Guy, the lanky prankster who slips behind late-inning heroes and smashes them in the mug with a whipped - or shaving-cream surprise.
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Livejournaller Shigella has created the world's most awesome Dr Who crafting project: the crocheted Dalek shaving-cream cozy.
Boing Boing 2007
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Lapin put shaving cream in a pressure can and called it Reddi-Shave, but decided he'd make better money selling his valves to other shaving-cream manufacturers.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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After allowing five hits and one unearned run against the Orioles and after wiping off the shaving-cream pie that closer Joe Nathan and setup man Juan Rincon pushed in his face during a postgame television interview, Garza called home.
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This is a problem because, dang, if you try to watch too many smart involving shows you find yourself neglecting your own writing or that frozen shaving-cream sculpture project.
LEVERAGE promos up Rogers 2008
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Feminism and those hoary family values keep the most broadly based media in cheek; we'll not likely see another shaving-cream campaign like Noxzema's "take it off" pitch any time soon.
THE SELLING OF SEX 2008
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A shaving-cream swastika was painted on their walkway, but it washed away in the rain before anyone could document that it had ever existed.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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