graffiti

The definition of graffiti is writing, drawing, or other marks on a wall where it does not belong.

(noun)

When someone scrawls a gang symbol on the side of a public building, this is an example of graffiti.

See graffiti in Webster's New World College Dictionary

plural noun sing. graffito

inscriptions, slogans, drawings, etc. scratched, scribbled, or drawn, often crudely, on a wall or other public surface

Origin: It, scribblings < graffio, a scratch < L graphium: see graft

See graffiti in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Plural of graffito.

Origin:

Origin: Italian

Origin: , pl. of graffito; see graffito

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