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Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 172: Beakies or shooflies [MTA inspectors].at beak, n.1
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 172: Beakies or shooflies [MTA inspectors]. Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 61: At first he painted only his name once or twice on each car he encountered, but then he started ‘bombing’ the trains, covering whole cars.at bomb, v.1
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 172: [...] beakies or shooflies [MTA inspectors].at shoo-fly, n.
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. [Foreword]: New York City teenagers have been ‘getting up’ – marking and painting their names on subway trains – since the late 1960s. [Ibid.] 19: getting around, getting over, and getting the name out, were used to signify the same idea.at get up, v.1
in Getting Up: Subway Graffiti 120: Me and Ray B had this language, this pig Latin, where we put ‘izz’ on the end of everything after the first letter. So for ‘mother,’ we’d say ‘mizzother.’ We’d get our little check and the crew chief would say, ‘What are you going to do with your money, Raymond?’ ‘I’m going to buy some smizzoke and some cizzoke and get fizzuk tizzup’.at -iz-, infix
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 31: Pieces, short for ‘masterpieces,’ are the names, usually consisting of four or more letters, that are painted on the outsides of subway trains.at piece, n.
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 46: It is a tradition among the most graffiti writers that all materials used in writing be stolen. The process of acquiring such material is called ‘racking up.’ Racking up is like any other sort of shoplifting. [Ibid.] 47: If more paint is needed during the summer, the most popular method of acquiring it is to ‘rack up in your socks,’ hiding the cans under a pair of baggy-legged trousers. [Ibid.] 48: There have also been a few cases of ‘mass racking,’ in which a large group of writers have entered a store, grabbed paint, and then run out.at rack up, v.2
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 21: ‘Taggers’ [...] have to write their names at least a thousand times before they can expect to be noticed by the other writers.at tagger, n.
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 31: The term throw-up is also used to refer to writing done in other forms that is lacking in style. When used to describe anything but an intentional throw-up, the term has the same meaning as bad style.at throw-up, n.
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 76: The word toy is used by writers to refer to anything insignificant. Small pens are called ‘toy markers’; short-run trains, like the Times Square-Grand Central shuttle, are ‘toy trains’; and especially, toys is used to describe inferior or inexperienced writers.at toy, n.1
Getting Up: Subway Graffiti In N.Y. 76: The word toy is used by writers to refer to anything insignificant […] especially, toys is used to describe inferior or inexperienced writers.at toy, v.
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