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noun, plural -toos.
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.
Origin:
1570–80; earlier taptoo < Dutch taptoe literally, the tap(room) is to (i.e., shut)
1570–80; earlier taptoo < Dutch taptoe literally, the tap(room) is to (i.e., shut)
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noun
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)
3.
to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
4.
to put (tattoos) on the skin.
Origin:
1760–70; < Marquesan tatu; replacing tattow < Tahitian tatau
1760–70; < Marquesan tatu; replacing tattow < Tahitian tatau
Related forms
tat·too·er, tat·too·ist, noun
un·tat·tooed, adjective
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tattoo
"mark the skin with pigment," 1769 (noun and ver, both first attested in writing of Capt. Cook), from a Polynesian noun (e.g. Tahitian and Samoan tatau, Marquesan tatu "puncture, mark made on skin").
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Medical Dictionary
tattoo tat·too (tā-t&oomacr;')
n. pl. tat·toos
A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars. v. tat·tooed, tat·too·ing, tat·toos
To mark the skin with a tattoo.
To form a tattoo on the skin.
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