get buffed

get buffed
 v.— «Written and directed by Matt McCormick, a filmmaker from Portland, Oregon, this ethereal short film from 2001 documents the seemingly mundane job of graffiti removal (or, as we graff writers call “buffing,” or “getting buffed”).» —“The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal” by War Jenkins Ward-O-Matic (Atlanta, Ga.) Mar. 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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Further reading

By a Long Shot (episode #1572)

Imagine telling someone how to get to your home, but without using the name of your street, or any other street within ten miles. Could you do it? We take street names for granted, but these words are useful for far more, like applying for a job or...

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