Definitions for tattoos

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tattoos tat·too

Spelling: [ta-too]

IPA: /tæˈtu/

Tattoos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in tattoos (aoosttt).

Definitions for tattoos

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 tattoos

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

Examples for tattoos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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