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tattoo

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[ ta-too ]

noun

plural tattoos.
  1. a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
  2. a knocking or strong pulsation:

    My heart beat a tattoo on my ribs.

  3. British. an outdoor military pageant or display.


tattoo

2

[ ta-too ]

noun

plural tattoos.
  1. the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
  2. a pattern, picture, legend, etc., so made.

verb (used with object)

tattooed, tattooing.
  1. to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
  2. to put (tattoos) on the skin.

tattoo

1

/ æˈٳː /

noun

  1. (formerly) a signal by drum or bugle ordering the military to return to their quarters
  2. a military display or pageant, usually at night
  3. any similar beating on a drum, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

tattoo

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/ æˈٳː /

verb

  1. to make (pictures or designs) on (the skin) by pricking and staining with indelible colours
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a design made by this process
  2. the practice of tattooing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ٲˈٴǴDZ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ٲ·ٴǴİ ٲ·ٴǴi noun
  • ܲt·ٴǴDZ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tattoo1

First recorded in 1570–80; earlier taptoo, from Dutch taptoe, literally, “shut tap,” from tap “spigot, tap” + toe “closed, shut”; cognate with tap 2( def ), to ( def )

Origin of tattoo2

First recorded in 1760–70; from Marquesan tatu; replacing tattow, from Tahitian tatau
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tattoo1

C17: from Dutch taptoe, from the command tap toe! turn off the taps! from tap tap of a barrel + toe to shut

Origin of tattoo2

C18: from Tahitian tatau
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County sheriffs for the decades is the stream of allegations about tattooed internal gangs running amok at certain stations.

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“It’s shocking how many tattoos I’ve seen of that sign,” Large said.

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“So I was doing a lot of that. I was bringing tattoo artists and letting them do whatever they wanted to do. I would let them paint on the walls.”

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He shared with me another picture, of his maimed hand, only now it also bore a tattooed message which expressed that his wounds were a cheap sacrifice in honour of Nasrallah, the late Hezbollah leader.

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Family members and immigration attorneys of the deportees maintain that many if not all of the men were not gang-affiliated and were unfairly accused based on their tattoos.

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