window-down

English

Noun

window-down (plural window-downs)

1. A piece of graffiti covering a train, etc. from the base of the window downward.
   • 2002, Ivor Miller, Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City, page 195:

     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, […]

   • 2011, Don DeLillo, Underworld:

     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.

See also

• top-to-bottom