Sticker Glossary

Old style Priority Mail Label 228 produced by the USPS in 2002. The old school Blue Tops are getting harder to find and are considered desirable by sticker artists for hand drawn art.

To remove or paint over graffiti and stickers.

Short for combination. A number of stickers all together.

Also called cut-to-shape. A sticker that has been cut to a special shape other than a rectangle, square, or circle.

Short for eggshells, very thin extra sticky stickers that crumble like an eggshell instead of peel off if you try to remove them.

A cut that goes through the sticker itself but not the sticker backer allowing it to be peeled more easily off the backer.

Short for collaboration or collab (when two or more artists make a sticker together).

A type of sticker printing that involves pushing ink through a screen stencil using a squeegee to apply it to the surface of the sticker. Sometimes referred to as screen printed.

A slang term for sticker, or to put up a sticker when used as a verb.

(Or Blackbook) A book or album containing a collection of stickers.

To put up a sticker.

To put up a whole lot of stickers. A surface is considered stickerbombed when it is thoroughly covered in stickers.

Vinyl stickers, as opposed to paper or other types of stickers.