top-to-bottom

English

Noun

top-to-bottom (plural top-to-bottoms)

1. A piece of graffiti covering the whole height of a railway carriage.
   • 1984, Craig Castleman, Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York, page 57:

     Many writers felt constricted painting below the windows of cars and began to expand their pieces upward into top-to-bottoms and lengthwise into end-to-ends.

See also

• end-to-end
• window-down