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  • //tæt//

Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.

  2. 2

    Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.

    tourist tat

    And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."

  3. 3

    Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).

Herkunft

From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).

Verb

  1. 1

    To make (something by) tatting.

Herkunft

Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Variante von tattingClipping of tatting.

    She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat

Substantiv

  1. 1

    altertümlichA pony.

    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.

Herkunft

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    SlangA tattoo.

    Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now.

    I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.

    Me and my thugs clock G's, sippin' naughty thangs. Real as these tats on my body, and it's Killuminati.

Herkunft

Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.

Verb

  1. 1

    SlangTo apply a tattoo.

    2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Variante von tattaltertümlichAlternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Variante von tattyAlternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    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.”

    [...] insecurity, anger engender the excessive retaliation of two tits for a tat that leads not to damping-down but to [escalation].

    At the U.S. planning sessions, it was not uncommon to hear someone say, "Just remember, when you're negotiating tit-for-tat, it's better to concede the occasional small tat to your opponent and keep the big tits for yourself."

    Not tit-for-tat, but more like ten tits for every tat.

Formen

Plural
tats
Präteritum
tatted
Partizip II
tatted
Partizip I
tatting
3. Person Singular
tats
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