Tattoo

Noun

 * 1) An image made in the skin with ink and a needle
 * 2) A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.

Verb

 * 1) To apply a tattoo (to someone or something)
 * 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.

Noun

 * 1)  A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out)
 * 2) a signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters
 * 3) a military display or pageant

Noun

 * 1) A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.

Thesaurus
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Etymology 1
From Polynesian languages tatau (Samoan and Tahitian) "to tap".

Etymology 2
From taptoe:.

Etymology 3
From tattū.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: դաջվածք
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: татуировка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 文身 (wénshēn),  (wénshēn)
 * Croatian: tetovaža
 * Czech: tetování
 * Danish: tatovering
 * Dutch: tatoeage
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 刺青, 入れ墨, 文身 (いれずみ, irezumi)
 * Korean: 문신 munshin
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: тетоважа
 * Maori:
 * Norwegian: tatovering
 * Persian: خالکوبی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tetovaziun, tatuaziun
 * Russian:,  тату
 * Samoan: tatau
 * Slovak: tetovanie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tahitian: tatau
 * Thai: การสัก
 * Turkish:
 * !Xóõ:


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: դաջում
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: тетовирање


 * : tatu


 * : tatu

Verb

 * Arabic: (wášama)
 * Armenian: դաջել
 * Catalan: tatuar
 * Chinese: 刺 (cì)
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: тетовира
 * Norwegian: tatovere
 * Polish: robić tatuaż,
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: tatuar
 * Swedish: tatuera
 * Turkish: dövme yapmak

Related terms

 * tatt
 * tattoo artist
 * tattoo parlour

Noun

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: iltasoitto,


 * Greek: τυμπανοκρουσία