grease pencil

American  

noun

1. a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.

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Example Sentences

Lanier leaned on his down-home Texas folksiness throughout the trial, telling the jury what was on his heart and scribbling with grease pencil on his demonstrative aids.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

In a 1975 interview with the Central New Jersey News, Tucker-Foreman derided the grease pencil idea as “typical of the ‘public be damned’ attitude the industry takes.

From Slate • May 30, 2024

From there he made the initial drawings for what became his most famous building, the Wave House, using a grease pencil to sketch its curving, wavelike roof directly onto his longboard.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

He tied a red grease pencil to a piece of string and taped it next to the map.

From Salon • May 4, 2019

All around us were portraits of famous old peculiars, not framed but drawn directly onto the walls in oil and charcoal and grease pencil.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs