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tat
1[ tat ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to do tatting, or make (knotted lace) by tatting.
tat
2[ tat ]
noun
- a pattern, words, or piece of art inked indelibly into the skin by making punctures in it and inserting pigments; tattoo:
She was normally proud of her tats, but she wore long-sleeved blouses to cover them while interviewing for elementary school teaching positions.
verb (used with or without object)
- to mark (the skin) with tattoos, or put (tattoos) on the skin (often followed by up ):
I want to get really tatted up, but I’m planning each piece carefully and taking my time—you only get one canvas for this art.
TAT
3abbreviation for
tat
1/ æ /
verb
- to make (something) by tatting
tat
2/ æ /
noun
- tatty articles or a tatty condition
- tasteless articles
- a tangled mass
tat
3/ æ /
noun
- short for tattoo 2
tat
4/ æ /
noun
- See tit for tat
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tat2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tat1
Origin of tat2
Idioms and Phrases
see tit for tat .Example Sentences
This current tit for tat spat involving the Reform UK leader Farage and the MP for Great Yarmouth, Rupert Lowe, has seen both sides flinging a lot of mud at each other.
Tom Tugendhat appeared to enjoy the Conservative Party Conference – handing out tat, sorry, memorabilia to anyone willing to take it: smarties, baseball caps, pens, notepads, even lollipops with a picture of him in the middle.
She reeled off a list of villages nearer the border - now deserted and destroyed after the past year of tit for tat exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel.
Russian statecraft follows closely the principle of proportionality, which means for every tit, there must be a tat.
Whatever the specifics of this latest tit for tat, there is a more fundamental priority for both sides: deterrence – a more solid certainty that strikes on its own soil will not happen again.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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