Writer's Vocabulary
You can go over a "tag" with "throw-up", but not go over "throw-up" with a tag.You can go over a "throw-up" with a "piece",but not go over a "piece" with "throw-up"
                                               - Moral Code
Boming
   - To go and out to get your name up as much as possible.
Bite
   - One who copies another writers style.
Buff
   -To remove graffiti from a surfacce.
Burn
   - To piece better than the next writer.
Burner
   - A wild style piece, executedd to perfection with style and color.
Cap(s)
   - (Fat and skinny,) Different spray can nozzles to vary width of spray.
Crew
   -A group of writers who paint together.
Down
   - In part of a group or action example.Example: He's down with us.
Fade
   - To blend colors.
Going over
   -A writer who has gone over another with their name.
Hit
   - To write your name on any surface with paint or ink.
Kill
   - To hit or bomb excessively.
King
   - When you are recognized by other writer's of being the best or most of survice.
Lay-up
   - Where trains are parked when out of survice.
Panel piece
    - A painting done below the windows and from door to door of a subway car.
Piece
   - A painting, short of master piece.
Piece book
   - A writer's sketchbook.
Rack
   - To steal.
Tag
   - A writer's signiture.
Tagging-up
   - Writing your signiture( could be on anything.)
Throw-up
   - A name painted quickly with one layer of  paint and an outline.
Wak
   - Unexperienced or untalented writer or ugly work.
Wild style
   - A lettering of the piece you cannot hardly make out.
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