tit
IPA: tˈɪt
noun
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A person's breast or nipple.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang) An idiot; a fool.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "tithead".
- (archaic) A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
- A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Any of various other small passerine birds.
- (archaic) A small horse; a nag.
- (archaic) A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
- A morsel; a bit.
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, obsolete) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
- (transitive, obsolete) To taunt, to reproach.
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Examples of "tit" in Sentences
- The milk cows have tits.
- Do men have tits as well
- Tits are composed of fats.
- The puppy ate milk from tit.
- A baby is sucking his mother's tit.
- She breastfed the baby from her tit.
- The patient described her pain in tit.
- It is illegal to take a picture of tit.
- The teacher explained the meaning of tit.
- One approach for the Right is to engage in tit for tat.
- The wooded sides of the reservoir provide habitat for marsh tits.
- He is focused on winning the long game not short term tit for tat.
- The Somalis on the CIA payroll engaged in tit-for-tat exchanges of kidnappings and assassinations with extremists.
- This strategy is usually called tit-for-tat: You scratch my back, I scratch yours; you don't scratch my back, I don't scratch yours.
- I recently read Axelrod's "Evolution of Cooperation" and was struck by how effective a long term tit-for-tat strategy would be politically.
- If Obama supporters are going to engage in tit for tat ping pong arguments and insults, believe me it will get nowhere. republicans are better at that!
- At the same time, the number of Iraqis found slain, apparently in tit-for-tat killings by Shiite and Sunni extremists, has sharply increased in western neighborhoods.
- In an effort to avert a possible trade war that could damage the global economic recovery, the Group of 20 members also pledged not to engage in tit-for-tat currency devaluations.
- There exists a "bad equilibrium" in tit-for-tat, wherein once someone has transgressed, one party has to be willing to take a short-term loss relative to the other party to re-establish trust.