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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grease pencil

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

From his coat he produces a grease pencil.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr