graffiti
noun /ɡrəˈfiːti/
/ɡrəˈfiːti/
[uncountable, plural]- drawings or writing on a wall, etc. in a public place
- The subway was covered in graffiti.
- Someone had scrawled graffiti all over the school walls.
- a fashionable graffiti artist
Extra ExamplesTopics Artb1- Racist graffiti was sprayed on the walls.
- The buildings were covered with graffiti.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- obscene
- offensive
- racist
- …
- piece
- daub
- scrawl
- spray
- …
- artist
- vandal
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Italian (plural), from graffio ‘a scratch’.