[Ads-l] Antedating of "Paint" (Basketball)

[Shapiro, Fred]

paint, n. (OED, 8., 1982)

1981 Indianapolis Star 1 Dec. 17/6 (ProQuest)

"I've never seen him play in person," Williams says of Maxwell ... I will have to deny him the ball inside because once he gets in the paint he becomes very difficult to stop."

Fred Shapiro

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