Tit

/tɪt/ · noun

Meaning

(chiefly in the plural) A person's breast or nipple..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly in the plural) A person's breast or nipple.
2. An animal's teat or udder.
3. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) An idiot; a fool.
4. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A police officer; a "tithead".
5. (archaic) A light blow or hit (now usually in the phrase tit for tat).
6. (transitive or intransitive, obsolete) To strike lightly, tap, pat.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To taunt, to reproach.
8. A chickadee; a small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the Northern Hemisphere.

Example Sentences

I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.

Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."

Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits.

A large bowl of suckulent ^([sic]) raspberries with clotted yellow cream fresh from the goat's tit on the diamond and ruby-studded glass end-table.

Look at that tit driving on the wrong side of the road!

John Watson (to Sherlock Holmes): It's Lestrade. Says they're all coming over here right now. Queuing up to slap on the handcuffs, every single officer you ever made feel like a tit. Which is a lot of people.

I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fucking stupid as these two.

“What did you say to the cops?” “I told them everything about the smuggling ring.” “Why the fuck did you do that?” “They were nice to me.” “They’re always nice to people they want to get information from, you dumb tit.”

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• tits
• tet
• titting
• titted

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