Handstyle: the distinctive and unique style of an individual writer’s tag.Going-Over (also referred to as taking-out): painting over another writer’s work.Fill: the interior base colors of a piece of graffiti.End-To-End: a train carriage with graffiti going from one side of it to the other.Normally named with a two or three letter acronym. Crew: a group of friends or a collective of writers that paint together.Clean Train: an American term for passenger trains.(Cap can also mean the same as going-over) Cap: the nozzle on spray-paint, different caps give different thickness of line, there’s lots of different caps out there, the two main categories are fats and skinnys.Blackbook: a graffiti writer’s sketchbook.Biting: to directly copy another writer’s style and letters. Bomb/Bombing: the act of painting illegal graffiti in the streets.Back Jump: when a train is stationery for a few minutes at some point during its daily service and possible to paint.Action: a European term for a graffiti mission.All City: when a writer is known and their work is visible throughout the entire city.This list has been created to the best of my knowledge and I’m sure will give you all you need to become a great artists. Part of your learning process is to understand all the graffiti words used by graffiti artists. The necessary graffiti words, lingo, jargon or slang terms you need to know, excluding everything that will make you sound straight out of a 1980s break dancing video.
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