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Tat
Definitions
- 1 A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.
- 1 Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze. British, uncountable
- 2 Clipping of tatting. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
"She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat"
- 3 A pony. India, archaic
"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."
- 4 A tattoo. slang
"Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now."
- 5 Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”). UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, slang
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- 6 Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”). alt-of, alternative
- 7 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.”"
- 8 A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.
- 9 Initialism of total air temperature. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 10 a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture wordnet
- 11 Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. British, uncountable
"tourist tat"
- 12 Initialism of thematic apperception test. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 13 tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar wordnet
- 14 Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute). India, countable
- 15 Initialism of turnaround time. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 To make (something by) tatting. intransitive, transitive
- 2 To apply a tattoo. slang, transitive
"2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up"
- 3 make lacework by knotting or looping wordnet
Etymology
From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).
Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.
Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.
From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”).
Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.
Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tāt (“alien, stranger, pagan”).
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tāt (“alien, stranger, pagan”).
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