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window-down en · NOUN
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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:
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