tat

Noun (1)

tat (countable and uncountable, plural tats)

1. (UK, uncountable) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
2. (UK, uncountable) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
   • tourist tat
   • And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."2004 May 28, Thomas Sutcliffe, “Why Britart is a burning issue”, in The Independent
3. (India, countable) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).

Verb (1)

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

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

Noun (2)

tat (plural tats)

1. (India, archaic) A pony.
   • And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.1879, Val Cameron Prinsep, Glimpses of Imperial India, page 206

Noun (3)

tat (plural tats)

1. (slang) A tattoo.
   • Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now.1998 November 17, “Americana” (track 22), in Supercharged: Worldwide in '25, performed by The Offspring
   • I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.1999 September 14, “I Can't Wait” (track 2), in Nigga Please, performed by Ol' Dirty Bastard

Verb (2)

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (slang, transitive) To apply a tattoo.
   • Write on me / Love the way you tat me up2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music

Noun (4)

tat (plural tats)

1. Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
   • The article seems an attempt at tit-for-tat; but there is too little tat, even in Bedouins, to provoke such a maze of tit as is found in “'Bedouins' and Nomads.”1920, The Creighton Chronicle, page 294
   • [...] insecurity, anger engender the excessive retaliation of two tits for a tat that leads not to damping-down but to [escalation].1999 May 18, D. Reisman, Conserative Capitalism: The Social Economy, Springer, →ISBN, page 122

Noun (5) capitalized: TAT

TAT (plural TATs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of total air temperature.
2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of thematic apperception test.
3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of turnaround time.

Noun (6) capitalized: Tat

IPA/tɑːt/

Tat (plural Tats or Tat)

1. A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.

Proper noun capitalized: Tat

IPA/tɑːt/

Tat

1. A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.

   Synonyms:

   Caucasian Persian