Graffiti terminology
Overview
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
. Like other jargon
Jargon
Jargon is terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, group, or event. The philosophe Condillac observed in 1782 that "Every science requires a special language because every science has its own ideas." As a rationalist member of the Enlightenment he...
and colloquialisms, some phrases vary in different cities and countries. The following terminology comes primarily from the United States.
angels
- Famous or respected graffiti artists who have died. People tag their names with halos above them or make tribute pieces with their faces or tag with the dates of their run or birth to death.
all city
- The state of being known for one's graffiti throughout a city.
