tattoo
IPA: tætˈu
noun
- 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).
- (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
- (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- (military) A military display or pageant.
- A pony of a certain breed from India.
verb
- To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
- (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
- To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
Examples of "tattoo" in Sentences
- I have a tattoo on my back.
- Tattoo ink is held in the dermis.
- The tattoo is incised on his back.
- I got this tattoo for the good of the show.
- Tattoo was a symbol of manhood in some tribes.
- The men had tattoos on the torso and the stomach.
- Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased.
- I seem to recall seeing the tattoo in The Sillurians.
- Her tattoo is beneath her shirt, waiting to be kissed.
- The exposed skin of the chin and head is often tattooed.
- It shouldn't be an avuncular lecture on why not to get a tattoo.
- But Oakland Mayor Bill Mullins said Leifer's tattoo is no past mistake.
- Google "Sergei Polunin" and the word "tattoo" comes third in the list of suggestions.
- But you can not tell me that every person with a tattoo is an idiot, uneducated, or trashy.
- Inside the tattoo is a series of numbers that she didn't even realize were there ... but that have great significance.
- They are participants in a cultural wave as huge as the Pacific surf, the islands from which the word "tattoo" originated.
- Matthew Fox had the tattoo before he became Jack, so how much of the tattoo is actually meaningful to who Jack is, and how much of it is just to give us an explanation of where he got the tattoo (e.g. after forcing a tattoo artist/fortune teller into giving it to him)?
- June 30th, 2010 at 10: 46 am apparently the only thing worse than a twilight tattoo is a twilight tattoo inked by someone who evidently has no artistic talent. not that i have to clarify, but juuuust in case, i am specifically referring to numbers 12 & 8.seriously. i would be SO MAD!