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Definition of Tattoo

1. Verb. Stain (skin) with indelible color.

2. Noun. A drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters.

3. Noun. A design on the skin made by tattooing.

4. Noun. The practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining.

Definition of Tattoo

1. n. A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.

2. v. t. To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.

3. n. An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.

Definition of Tattoo

1. Noun. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle ¹

2. Noun. A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin. ¹

3. Verb. To apply a tattoo (to someone or something) ¹

4. Verb. (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball ¹

5. Noun. (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out) ¹

6. Noun. a signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters ¹

7. Noun. a military display or pageant ¹

8. Noun. A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tattoo

1. to mark the skin with indelible pigments [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Tattoo

1. An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tattoo

tattle tattle tell tattled tattler tattlers tattles tattletale tattletale gray tattletale grey tattletales

tattletaling tattling tattling(a) tattlings tattoed tattoo (current term) tattoo artist tattoo artists tattoo gun tattoo guns

tattoo machine tattoo machines tattooed tattooee tattooees tattooer tattooers tattooing tattooings tattooist

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