tattoed

Verb (1)

tattoo (third-person singular simple present tattoos, present participle tattooing, simple past and past participle tattooed)

1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
   • She made Silas tattoo an anchor on her arm like his1871, Louisa May Alcott, chapter VII, in Little Men
2. 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.

Verb (2)

tattoo (third-person singular simple present tattoos, present participle tattooing, simple past and past participle tattooed)

1. To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
   • He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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