tat

noun

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).

verb

1. 1

   To make (something by) tatting.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of tattingClipping of tatting.

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

noun

1. 1

   archaicA 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.

noun

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.

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

noun

1. 1

   Variant of tattarchaicAlternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).

noun

1. 1

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

noun

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.

Forms

plural

tats

past tense

tatted

past participle

tatted

present participle

tatting

third person singular

tats