Bomit Dictionary:

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All City - To have your artwork seen all over your city

Art Crimes - Top graffiti site

Black book - Book full of graffiti and / or stickers

Beef - Having public animosity with another writer / artist

Bombing - Getting up

Bite - To steal another artist's ideas, style, or lettering schemes.

Burn - To out do another artist's work

Burner - Really good graffiti piece

Buff - To remove or cover over art

Crew - Group of writers or street artists

CMYK - Four-color sticker printing

Fats - Spray nozzle that comes out thicker and wider

Flix - Photos, Flicks

Freights - Trains

Getting Up - Going out to make art continuously

Graffiti - Unauthorized defacing of a building, wall or other edifice or object by painting or otherwise marking it with words, pictures or symbols.

Hand Styles - Specific styles of writing tags

Heavens - Pieces in hard-to-reach places such as rooftops and freeway signs, thus making them hard to remove.

Hello My Name Is Decals - Cheap way to get up

Hollow - Similar to a "throwup" a hollow is an outline but not filled in

Mail Art - Style from the 70's of sending art in the mail

Obey Giant - Most influential organization

Pics - Pictures

Piece - To make an intricate graffiti image

Po Po - Police

Priority Mail Labels - Used by artists to make free stickers

Propaganda Art - War and Communist imagery

Rack - Surplus of art supplies

Racking - Stealing anything - Paint / Supplies

Shepard Fairey - Professional street artist

Slash - To put a line through or tag over another's artwork

Snipe - Stealthy posting

Snitch - Someone who tells on another

Spot - Location for existing graffiti or ideal potential place

Stencil - Cut out cardboard image for spray paint

Sticker Art - Using stickers as graffiti art

StickerNation.net - Was best sticker site - R.I.P.?

Street Art - Stencils, wheat pasting, stickering, etc.

Streak - Simple oil paint stick predominately used on trains

Tag - Artist's signature, normally done in one color

Thins - Spray tips that comes out thinner

Throw Up - Simple outlined one or two color graffiti image

Up - Artists become up when their work becomes widespread and well-known

Toy - Person considered lame or whose style sucks

Wack (Also spelled whack) Refers to an ugly throw-up, tag or piece. If something "sucks", it is wack

Wheat Paste - Homemade glue for putting up posters

Wild Style - Form of graffiti writing using highly stylized letters

Wooster Collective - Best street art site