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graff up

graff up verb: to graffiti.

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.
    • They’d climbed over the wall and were graffing up the back of it.2001, Elizabeth Laird, Jake’s Tower, London: Macmillan Children’s Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 26
    • 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.2012 March, Tama Wise, chapter 17, in Street Dreams, Valley Falls, N.Y.: Bold Strokes Books, →ISBN, page 133

Forms of graff up

third-person singular presentgraffs up
present participlegraffing up
past participlegraffed up
pastgraffed up

Questions about graff up

What does graff up mean?
Graff up means to graffiti.
What part of speech is graff up?
Graff up is a verb.
What is the past tense of graff up?
The past tense of graff up is graffed up.

Words near graff up in the dictionary

  1. graf artist
  2. graf artists
  3. Grafe
  4. Grafes
  5. graff
  6. graff up
  7. graffage
  8. graffages
  9. Graffam
  10. Graffams
  11. graffed

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