tattoo
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[edit] Etymology
From Polynesian languages tatau (Samoan and Tahitian) "to tap".
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /tæ'tu/
[edit] Noun
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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. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.
[edit] Translations
an image made in the skin with ink and a needle
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method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface
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[edit] Verb
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to tattoo (third-person singular simple present tattoos, present participle tattooing, simple past tattooed, past participle tattoed)
- 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.
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to apply a tattoo
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[edit] Noun
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tattoo (plural tattoos)
- (nautical) From taptoe, the time to close the taps.
- (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out)
- a signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters
- a military display or pageant
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time to close the taps
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signal
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