Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Brightly colored and simply designed graphic shapes of billboard proportions.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ graphics

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Examples

  • In West Hollywood, an enclave of 38,000 people about eight miles from downtown Los Angeles, the billboard-tax initiative was sponsored by Michael McNeilly, founder of SkyTag Inc., a Beverly Hills-based maker of large vinyl signs called supergraphics.

    unknown title 2011

  • West Hollywood Looks for Cash From Sunset Strip Billboard In West Hollywood, an enclave of 38,000 people about eight miles from downtown Los Angeles, the billboard-tax initiative was sponsored by Michael McNeilly, founder of SkyTag Inc., a Beverly Hills-based maker of large vinyl signs called supergraphics.

    unknown title 2011

  • In West Hollywood, an enclave of 38,000 people about eight miles 13 kilometers from downtown Los Angeles, the billboard- tax initiative was sponsored by Michael McNeilly, founder of SkyTag Inc., a Beverly Hills-based maker of large vinyl signs called supergraphics.

    unknown title 2011

  • LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed its first charges under a ban passed last year on the giant building-cloaking signs known as supergraphics and most other billboards.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press 2010

  • LOS ANGELES (AP) - Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

    WTOP / Business / Biz Stories 2010

  • LOS ANGELES (AP) - Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

    WCAX - Local News 2010

  • LOS ANGELES (AP) - Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

    WTOP / Business / Biz Stories 2010

  • Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • See former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel way back in 1999 on why laws against such "supergraphics" are dumb to begin with.

    Reason Magazine Brian Doherty 2010

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