graff up

English

Verb

graff up (third-person singular simple present graffs up, present participle graffing up, simple past and past participle graffed up)

1. (slang) To graffiti.
   • 2001, Elizabeth Laird, Jake’s Tower, London: Macmillan Children’s Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 26:

     They’d climbed over the wall and were graffing up the back of it.

   • 2012 March, Tama Wise, chapter 17, in Street Dreams, Valley Falls, N.Y.: Bold Strokes Books, →ISBN, page 133:

     Things were moving too fast, and already he wondered how far he could go without having even touched a can of paint. Briefly, he had images of him graffing up walls.

   • 2008, Simmone Howell, “Lucky Smoke”, in Everything Beautiful, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 60:

     His bag was graffed up with band names I didn’t recognize—lightning bolts and heavy-metal umlauts.