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tat

noun
/tæt//tɑːt/

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.

  1. derived from टाट — “thick canvas”

Definitions

  1. Cheap and vulgar tastelessness

    Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.

  2. Cheap, tasteless, useless goods

    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. Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. To make (something by) tatting.

    2. Clipping of tatting.

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

    3. A pony.

    4. A 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.

    5. To 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

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

    7. Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).

    8. 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."

    9. A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern…

      A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.

    10. A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.

    11. Initialism of total air temperature.

    12. Initialism of thematic apperception test.

    13. Initialism of turnaround time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA