Meaning

(uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
2. (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
3. (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
4. (transitive, intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.
5. Clipping of tatting.
6. (India, archaic) A pony.
7. (slang) A tattoo.
8. (slang, transitive) To apply a tattoo.

Example Sentences

tourist tat

And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."

She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat

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.

Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now.

I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat.

Me and my thugs clock G's, sippin' naughty thangs. Real as these tats on my body, and it's Killuminati.

2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up

Word Forms

• tats
• tatting
• tatted
• tattoo
• tatt

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When Should You Use Tat?

Use tat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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