tat

Plural: tats

Noun

• tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
• a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture
• Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
• Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
• Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
• A pony.
• A tattoo.
• Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).
• Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
• Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.

Verb

Verb Forms: tatted, tatting, tats

• To make delicate lace by knotting with a shuttle.
• make lacework by knotting or looping
• To make (something by) tatting.
• To apply a tattoo.

Examples

• I tried to tat together a winning strategy, but the letters just weren’t cooperating.
• tourist tat

Synonyms

cheapness, intertwine, sleaze, tackiness, Thematic Apperception Test

Related Words

rat-a-tat-tat, tatt, tatting, tatty, tit for tat

Anagrams of tat