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graffiti

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noun

graf·​fi·​ti grə-ˈfē-(ˌ)tē How to pronounce graffiti (audio)
gra-,
grä-
: usually unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface
Is graffiti singular or plural?: Usage Guide

Graffiti, which also serves as the plural of graffito, is commonly used as a singular mass noun.

graffiti … was depressing people who rode the subways New Yorker
graffiti comes in various styles S. K. Oberbeck

This use is well established although not yet as well established as the mass-noun use of data. Use of graffiti as a singular count noun is still quite rare and is not standard.

graffiti

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verb

graffitied; graffitiing grə-ˈfē-(ˌ)tē-iŋ How to pronounce graffiti (audio)
gra-,
grä-
also graffiting grə-ˈfē-tiŋ How to pronounce graffiti (audio)
gra-,
grä-

transitive verb

: to draw graffiti on : to deface with graffiti
graffitied walls

Example Sentences

Noun The walls of the old building are covered with graffiti.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The graffiti left on the site in December was part of a string of antisemitic incidents in the city in recent years, according to the newspaper. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022 Along with posting pictures of the graffiti on Facebook, Villanueva also called on Birmingham officials to remove the markings after noticing them just days before the World Games get underway Thursday in the Magic City . Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 5 July 2022 Most of the graffiti on the Yosemite Falls Trail were 3 feet by 3 feet, though some were as large as 8 feet by 8 feet. Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022 March 2011 - Violence flares in Daraa after a group of teens and children are arrested for writing political graffiti. CNN, 31 Mar. 2022 The art doesn’t paint a better picture, and features shoes dangling from telephone lines, a graffiti tagged Mjolnir, and Odin wearing Timbs. Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2022 The club is set in a 1930s industrial building located in Hollywood’s Media District that’s been renovated and decorated with eye-catching graffiti by the artist Mr. Brainwash. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 July 2022 The Yum Yum Food Truck in Layton, which serves Filipino food, was targeted by a hate crime last year, when its truck was defaced with anti-Asian graffiti. Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022 Police in San Leandro, California, arrested a 25-year-old on Monday on suspicion of vandalizing a neighbor's home with anti-Asian graffiti. Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 21 June 2022
Verb
The announcement follows a weekend of protests in the United Kingdom, where on June 7, protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol and graffitied a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in London. Mélissa Godin, Time, 9 June 2020 What parts of the dining room walls that aren’t obscured by supplies are graffitied with well wishes in English, Spanish and Mandarin, and taped with paper bills like a neighborhood bar. Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020 In under a hundred years, Florence’s equivalent of a New York minute, the majority were bordered up, graffitied over, repurposed into doorbell posts, or completely covered. Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2020 There have been at least 12 episodes since Nov. 6, including anti-Asian and anti-black slurs graffitied in residence halls and a swastika in a snow bank near an apartment complex where students live. Doha Madani, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2019 Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times More than 2,500 police officers patrol New York City’s subway, where crime is down sharply from the era of rampant violence and graffiti three decades ago. New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019 Fernandez was proposing to have graffiti-like murals on each of the six panels on the transportation center, with panels representing Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena. Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 27 Aug. 2019 Situated in a lay-by on the A487, just north of Llanrhystud, about half-way up the west coast of Wales, its importance derives from two words graffitied on it by Meic Stephens, a journalist and activist, in the 1960s: Cofiwch Dryweryn. The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019 My current paralysis seemed to have begun with a three-word question graffitied all over my neighborhood. Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun and Verb

Italian, plural of graffito

First Known Use

Noun

1945, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1964, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of graffiti was in 1945

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