(A "throw up" is graffiti composed of big, bubble letters that writers can throw up quickly.) Outfitted in safety suits and masks, the Rangers dutifully buffed (painted over) ...

The letter M of the alphabet is on display at the corner of 26th and Folsom of the Mission District which is painted by muralist Victor Reyes , Thursday June 10, 2010, in San Francisco, Calif.

Paul Watts parked his Ford F-250 along Southeast Stark Street beside Interstate 5 and looked at an alphabet soup of graffiti signatures on the concrete walls and Jersey barriers. There were large ...

A stylistic signature representing the artist’s name, the throw-up is made of personalised (often bubble) letters, outlined in one colour and filled with another.