Sticker Glossary

Blue Top

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.

Buff

To remove or paint over graffiti and stickers.

Combo

Short for combination. A number of stickers all together.

Diecut

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

Eggs

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

Kisscut

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

Lab

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

Silkscreen

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.

Slap

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

Slapbook

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

Slaptag

To put up a sticker.

Stickerbomb

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

Vinyls

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

This sticker glossary is a work in progress. Please email me with terms and definitions that should be added or let me know if I got anything wrong.