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tat up

tat up verb: to apply a tattoo.

Verb

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

  1. (literally, transitive) To apply a tattoo.
    • He's tatting up that client.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To get tattoos.
    • The sailor tatted up throughout his lifetime.
    • Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women...2015 April 19, Joaquin Sapien, “"The worst elements of the department": New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet”, in Salon

Forms of tat up

third-person singular presenttats up
present participletatting up
past participletatted up
pasttatted up

Questions about tat up

What does tat up mean?
Tat up means to apply a tattoo.
What part of speech is tat up?
Tat up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tat up?
The past tense of tat up is tatted up.

Words near tat up in the dictionary

  1. tasukizori
  2. tasuldine
  3. Taswegian
  4. Taswegians
  5. tat
  6. tat up
  7. tata
  8. TATA box
  9. TATA boxes
  10. tata for now
  11. Tatabánya

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