Graffiti slang

Bomb (or throw-up) - a quick drawing, usually done in "bubble letters" and reflects the name of the crew or the writer himself. It is painted by paint, often 1-2 (sometimes 3) colors are used. The most common are black / silver (white) and yellow / red.

Crew - several (and sometimes even very many) writers, united in one team. Often the crew consists not only of writers, but also of b-boys or DJ'z.

Writer - is actually the one who draws graffiti (taggers are those who just tag and do not draw pieces and do not throw bombs and sometimes do not count in the ranks of writers.) But if you take it a lot, it's all graffiti)

Burner - a particularly bright and outstanding piece (both in the selection of colors and in size).

Taggers - are those who only deal with tagging. The unprincipled people often call so all the writers, which is not quite right.

Cap - nozzle on the cylinder. There are different nozzles that allow you to adjust the thickness of the line. Basically all caps are divided into male and female. Male - those who have a pin, which, in fact, and is inserted into the balloon, female - those that are worn on the pin of the balloon itself. Male and female are divided into fat caps and skinny caps. Fat give a thick line, sometimes up to 10 cm wide, and skinny - thin, some - 0.5 cm thick.

To bomb - bomb. Throw throw-up on walls, trains, etc.

To piece - draw a piece (piece).

To kill - specifically draw a wall, car ... (eg, "Yo, I went bombin 'with this cat tha other night.")

Insert a few cans - steal cylinders. Initially, most (if not all) writers steal cylinders from local households. the shops. Now it depends on the financial situation of each writer, and it's almost impossible to steal paint in New York, as it is kept under lock and key and is not sold to anyone under 18! Interesting fact: my favorite writer-COPE-still keeps his banks in New York ... how he does it - nobody knows!

Yard, train yard - depot, a sump for trains. Initially there was a depot for subway trains. Now more and more writers are moving to commodity trains - freights, and, accordingly, now, the settling tanks for freight cars are called yard or freight yard.

Whole car - a piece or throw-up on the whole car. Side-to-side - a piece that stretches or repeats through the entire length of the car.

Top-to-bottom - a piece drawn at full height of the car. The top-to-bottom side-to-side is the same as the whole car.

Outline - edging letters, shadows, etc. Filling - sketch inside outlines (not including details).

Wildstyle - a style of writing letters, in which everything is reduced to a weave, intersection and broken lines, which makes some pieces made in wildstyle, almost unreadable.

Bubble letter - one of the oldest and oldest styles in graffiti. The style of writing letters, where the main thing is the softness and volume of the forms. It is mainly used for throw-ups (see bombing).

Daim style is a style developed by writer DAIM. The style of letters in 3D, is drawn without outline, the main emphasis is put on the shadow.

To get up - go to the bombing, piecing. The process of the writer's activity. (Eg "yeah ... we used to get up in that yard").

Blackbook, piecebook, sketchbook - notebook, notebook, etc., in which the writer makes his sketch'i. Sketch'i can then be transferred to a wall or a car, or they can remain only in blackbook'e.

Toy - 1) inexperienced person in graffiti, yellow-throat; 2) a person who is not in graffiti because of his love of art, but for other reasons. This leads either to biting, or to reluctance to constantly improve. Such people are not rewarded with anything but contempt and hatred from the writers. Note: all the writers were once the toys described in the first case and all bite'i, but after some experience was gained, the desire to develop and create their own style turned the toy into a writer .

To bite - copy someone's style.

To buff - paint the pieces. Often this is done by the city authorities, yard workers, "anti-graffiti" teams or janitors

To cross out - superimpose a piece on top of a piece of another writer. It is considered an act of disrespect and, as a rule, causes a beef between these writers or even whole crews.

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