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tt

tt is the abbreviation of teetotal.

Meaning of teetotal

Adjective

teetotal (comparative more teetotal, superlative most teetotal)

  1. Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
    • There is absolutely a teetotal society here in the heart of the mountains, and some quarrelsome drunkards have become reformed![1846], Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (contributor), Jamaica, Enslaved and Free, →OCLC, page 88
  2. Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
  3. Containing no alcohol.
  4. (dated, emphatic) Total.
    • That's a teetotal lie.1858, Samuel Putnam Avery, The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime, page 331

See all 6 meanings of teetotal

Adjective capitalized: TT

TT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tuberculin tested, a quality of milk in post-war Britain.

Noun (1) capitalized: TT

TT (countable and uncountable, plural TTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tabletop.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of technology transfer.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tag team.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tandem turn.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of terrestrial time.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of therapeutic touch.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of time trial.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of time-traveller.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tritone.
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Tula Tokarev.
    Synonyms:
    TT pistol, Tokarev, Tokarev pistol, TT-30, TT-33
  11. (abbreviation, initialism, artificial intelligence) Initialism of Turing test.
    • Some have also noted that the TT is anthropomorphic. It is true that the TT tests for human-like intelligence.2003, “Turing Test: 50 Years Later”, in James H. Moor, editor, The Turing test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, pages 69–70
  12. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of trust territory.
  13. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of thumb tip.
  14. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of target text.
    • [S]tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.2004, Christina Schäffner, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 119
    Antonyms:
    ST

Proper noun capitalized: TT

TT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of TikTok.
    • I keep getting rude comments about my custom brushes being "cheating" on TT so here's a reminder that there's no such thing as cheating in art and using the tools available to you is good, actually2022 September 25, @TheStarfishface, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024
    • MrBeast was instead presented with a valuable lesson on the true cost of a dollar, posting later that day, “It is funny that when I say I’m buying TT I get unfathomable amount of messages from the ultra wealthy but when I fund raise it’s crickets.”2025 February 6, Jon Caramanica, quoting MrBeast, “What’s Next for MrBeast? Class Consciousness.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Teen Titans.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Time Team.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Tourist Trophy.

Noun (2) capitalized: Tt

Tt (plural Tts)

  1. a book size range corresponding to one thirty-second of the size of an uncut sheet of paper, 10-12.5 cm in height.

Synonyms of tt

Antonyms

Forms of tt

pluralTTs
pluralTts

Origin of tt

Abbreviation of thirty-two.

Words formed from tt

Questions about tt

What does tt mean?
Tt means a book size range corresponding to one thirty-second of the size of an uncut sheet of paper, 10-12.5 cm in height.
What is tt the abbreviation of?
Tt is the abbreviation of teetotal.
What part of speech is tt?
Tt can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near tt in the dictionary

  1. tszujes
  2. tszujing
  3. Tsúut'ínà
  4. Tsúùt'ínà
  5. Tsúūt'ínà
  6. tt
  7. TT4N
  8. TTAB
  9. TTB
  10. ttbar
  11. ttbars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tt (page history and authors); TT (page history and authors); Tt (page history and authors); teetotal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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