Definitions for tattoo

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tattoo tat·too

Spelling: [ta-too]

IPA: /tæˈtu/

Tattoo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in tattoo (aoottt).

Definitions for tattoo

noun

1. a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
2. a knocking or strong pulsation:
3. British. an outdoor military pageant or display.
4. the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
5. a pattern, picture, legend, etc., so made.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
2. to put (tattoos) on the skin.

Origin of tattoo

1570-80; earlier taptoo Dutch taptoe literally, the tap(room) is to (i.e., shut)

Examples for tattoo

Young Allison was staring at tattoo marks on the right arm of the body.

The findings revealed that, in 1999, only 21 percent of Americans claimed someone in their household had a tattoo.

The best way to pay tribute to the surrealist artist: get a tattoo of his work.

Kastigar still had the tattoo, but he had grown a beard and lost a front tooth.

There was one guy who had a tattoo of me on his inner thigh.

This discoloration was of a livid blue, about the tint of a tattoo mark.

Felicite, enraged, was beating a tattoo on the shutter with her impatient fingers.

Parker found him no boxer, and beat a tattoo upon his middle.

She'd come on pass from Pindi, an' the Colonel's lady had lint her the tattoo.

Because that tattoo ink might be more permanent than your love.