tat
noun/tæt/
/tæt/
- [uncountable] (British English, informal) goods that are cheap and of low quality
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- (also tatt)[countable] (informal) a tattoo (= a picture or design that is marked permanently on a person’s skin by making small holes in the skin with a needle and filling them with coloured ink)
- She has tats over most of her body.
see also tit for tat
Word Originmid 19th cent. (in the senses ‘rag’ and ‘person in rags’): probably a back-formation from tatty.
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