Definition of "tat" in English

noun

1. (uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.

2. (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.

   • tourist tat

3. (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.

noun

1. Clipping of tatting.

noun

1. (India, archaic) A pony.

noun

1. (slang) A tattoo.

verb

1. (slang, transitive) 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

noun

1. (UK, gambling, slang, archaic) Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).

noun

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

noun

1. Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.