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window-down

window-down noun: a piece of graffiti covering a train, etc. from the base of the window downward.

Noun

window-down (plural window-downs)

  1. A piece of graffiti covering a train, etc. from the base of the window downward.
    • To bomb the system is to saturate MTA subway cars with one's signatures. ln the 1980s, certain writers were identified as bombers because they had mastered all disciplines of the form: insides, throw-ups, window-downs, top-to-bottoms, […]2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195
    • They saw Rimester near a light tower, one of the older writers, a black guy wearing a kufi, a skullcap, who did amazing wildstyle window-downs, Ismael had to admit—the letters decorated with love poems and sentiments of heartbreak.2011, Don DeLillo, Underworld

Forms of window-down

pluralwindow-downs

Questions about window-down

What does window-down mean?
Window-down means a piece of graffiti covering a train, etc. from the base of the window downward.
What part of speech is window-down?
Window-down is a noun.
What is the plural of window-down?
The plural of window-down is window-downs.

Words near window-down in the dictionary

  1. window washer
  2. window washers
  3. window-breaker
  4. window-cleaner
  5. window-cleaners
  6. window-down
  7. window-downs
  8. window-dress
  9. window-dressed
  10. window-dresser
  11. window-dressers

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