tattoo
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tæˈtu(ː)/, [tʰæˈtʰu̟(ː)]
tattoo (plural tattoos)
- An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
- A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
- French: tatouage
- German: Tätowierung, Tattoo
- Italian: tatuaggio
- Portuguese: tatuagem
- Russian: татуиро́вка
- Spanish: tatuaje
- German: Tätowieren
- Russian: татуи́рование
tattoo (tattoos, present participle tattooing; past and past participle tattooed)
- To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
- (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
- Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
- French: tatouer
- German: tätowieren
- Italian: tatuare
- Portuguese: tatuar
- Russian: татуи́ровать
- Spanish: tatuar
tattoo
- (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
- 2017, Charles King, Cadet Days
- Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.
- 2017, Charles King, Cadet Days
- (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- (military) A military display or pageant.
- German: Zapfenstreich
- German: Zapfenstreich
- Spanish: retreta
- German: Großer Zapfenstreich
- Spanish: parada
tattoo (tattoos, present participle tattooing; past and past participle tattooed)
- To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:
- He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:
tattoo (plural tattoos)
- A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.
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