Unauthorised artwork revolutionary provided in strongly Labour newspaper

• Writing on the wall
• Scribblings on the walls of buildings
• The writing on the wall
• A rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls
• "American ___" (1973 coming-of-age film starring Ron Howard)
• Scrawl on a wall
• Unwanted art

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, for ancient wall inscriptions found in the ruins of Pompeii, from Italian graffiti, plural of graffito "a scribbling," a diminutive formation from graffio "a scratch or scribble," from graffiare "to scribble," ultimately from Greek graphein "to scratch, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls [syn: graffiti ] [also: graffiti (pl)]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN artist ▪ Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist ? ■ VERB cover ▪ When the camera crew arrived three days later, the shelter was covered in graffiti and all its glass had been shattered. ▪ The place is covered ...