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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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Tattoo
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example Sentences
- They saw one another at tattoo conventions around the area, comparing bikes.
- Someone sold a tattoo on his forehead to an advertiser of some sort.
- The urge to fit in drives many in our age to get a tattoo.
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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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Word Origin & History
tattoo
"signal," 1688, "signal calling soldiers or sailors to quarters at night," earlier tap-to (1644, in order of Col. Hutchinson to garrison of Nottingham), from Du. taptoe, from tap "faucet of a cask" (see tap (2)) + toe "shut." So called because police used to visit taverns in
EXPANDthe evening to shut off the taps of casks. Transf. sense of "drumbeat" is recorded from 1755. Hence, Devil's tattoo "action of idly drumming fingers in irritation or impatience" (1803).
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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