tats

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

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

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

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