lipsticker

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English

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Etymology

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lipstick +‎ -er (relational suffix) or +‎ -er (agent noun suffix)

Noun

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lipsticker (plural lipstickers)

  1. A person who wears lipstick.
    • 1934, The New Yorker - Volume 10, page 139:
      If you are a lipsticker and a mascaraite and his pictures are supposed to match yours — this is not the place.
    • 1940 May 15, “America's Makeup”, in Consumers' Guide, volume 6, number 16, page 2:
      They were accused of containing cadmium and selenium, two minerals which might be poisonoous or deleterious to lipstickers.
    • 2010, Larry-bob, The International Homosexual Conspiracy, page 93:
      But I ain't no lipsticker.
  2. A lipstick applicator.
    • 1957, Atkinson's Evening Post and Philadelphia Saturday News, page 149:
      Many are resentful of "stockpiling"—the hoarding of hundreds of lipstickers, mostly at Government expense, pending contracts not yet awarded and sometimes not even in sight.
    • 2014, Turk Allcott, Time Leak, page 101:
      He showed me a big bright silver tube lipsticker.