tattoo
- Noun. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
- Noun. 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. To apply a tattoo (to someone or something).
- Verb. (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
- Noun. (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
- Noun. a signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- Noun. a military display or pageant.
- Noun. A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.
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