graffiti

A form of art and expression. The world is each ones canvas.

by jesse September 14, 2003

counter-graffiti

Changing something offensive written in graffiti into something more favorable

Mary used counter-graffiti to change the word "Fag" into "Baguette".

by awesomeaardvark March 15, 2009

Graffitio

iPhone Application. A location-based app that allows you to post comments on user created walls around you. Availabe in the app store and it's free.

"Graffitio has changed my life"

by Anon/Nombs January 18, 2009

Mind Graffiti

n. various notes, ideas, sketches, etc. jotted down in a random and disorderly manner

While waiting for the next train, I was jotting down stuff in my notebook, such as a grocery list, song ideas, happy faces, and other mind graffiti.

by Mr Tango Jones January 10, 2010

Bathroom Graffiti

Something someone wrote on a bathroom wall, contrary to your typical graffiti (which you’ll see if you drive through a ghetto) bathroom graffiti is typically done with a marker or a pen rather than spray paint. Very easy to find in a public school or a gas station.

Melissa: when I was in high school, someone wrote I was a slut on the bathroom wall.
Courtney: typical bathroom graffiti.
George: in the boy’s bathroom, it was mostly just random swear words and drawings of dicks.

by nutella137 July 17, 2020

graffiti writer

One who does(writes) graffiti.

Those damn graffiti writers wrote on my truck!!
;p

by SMEAR July 31, 2006

graffiti

Graffiti is the practice of systematically and stylistically marking infrastructure.

Since graffiti as a spatial practice and urban art movement pre-dates hip hop by over 10 years (having begun in Philadelphia with the writer Cornbread in the late 1960s) it is spurious at best to link graffiti and hip hop as mutually constitutive. Furthermore, many of the most prolific graffiti writers have been inspired by punk, heavy metal, classic oldies, and funk in addition to hip hop. Since graffiti is a spatial practice produced on both private and public spaces, "graffiti style" lettering and characters in sanctioned spaces such as galleries or places of capitalist consumption on canvas, t-shirts, or any other packaged and confined objects merely shares in and emulates stereotypical graffiti imagery, but is not itself graffiti. Graffiti cannot accurately be attributed to any one group or style of practitioner other than those who adhere to the aesthetic norms and mores of the graffiti community at large.

by Stefano Bloch February 16, 2008