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tat¹
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).
noun tats
- Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
- Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. tourist tat
- Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
tat²
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.
verb tats · tatting · tatted
- To make (something by) tatting.
noun tats
- Clipping of tatting She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
tat³
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”).
noun tats · tattoo · tatt
- A pony. And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.
tat⁴
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.
noun tats
- A tattoo. Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now.
verb tats · tatting · tatted
- To apply a tattoo. 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up
tat⁵
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
noun tats
- Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).
tat⁶
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
noun tats
- Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
tat⁷
- /tæt/
Rhymes with -æt
noun tats
- Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat. The article seems an attempt at tit-for-tat; but there is too little tat, even in Bedouins, to provoke such a maze of tit as is found in “'Bedouins' and Nomads.”
Tat⁸
- /tɑːt/
Sounds like tot, taught, taut (cot–caught merger, father–bother merger), tart (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɑːt
Where it comes from
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tāt (“alien, stranger, pagan”).
noun Tats · Tat · Tati
- A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.
proper noun Tati
-
A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.
Similar: Caucasian Persian
TAT⁹
noun TATs
- Initialism of total air temperature
- Initialism of thematic apperception test
- Initialism of turnaround time
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sleaze, cheapness, tackiness, intertwine, reach, deed, eat, status, fact, etc, pes, tattoo, condition, ink, ate, dent
Translations
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