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scratchitti en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of scratch + graffiti.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) A form of graffiti that is scratched or etched into a surface, especially one of glass or plexiglass.
    • The singer seemed somewhat alarmed by my desperate scratchitti but smiled gamely and said he was flattered. 2008, Carl Capotorto, Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir, page 14:
    • Stage 2 is to develop a well-controlled scratchitti removal instrument or tool for manual operation and test it on NYCT rail transit cars. 2000, New IDEAS for Transit, page 39:
    • They had had to make do with the weed killer and scratchitti. 2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches:
    • You were hiding out in the sweet-foul stench of a bathroom stall, gazing emptily at the scratchitti of various sexual positions someone had etched into the aluminum, as you tried to hold fast to the sweet image of Rebekkah's eyes on yours. 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, page 64: