tattoo
An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
Noun 4 meanings
An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
Verb 3 meanings
To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
“Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.”
To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
Etymology
g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).
TATTOO at a glance
TATTOO has 6 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (T 1 + A 1 + T 1 + T 1 + O 1 + O 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,645 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with tattoo
All rhymes- COCKATOO16
- GENTOO7
- POTOO7
- RATOO5
- TUKTOO10
One letter away
- TATTOW9
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