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.
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