tat

Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.UKuncountable

Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.UKuncountable

• tourist tat

Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).Indiacountable

To make (something by) tatting.intransitivetransitive

Clipping of tatting.abbreviationalt-ofclipping

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

A pony.Indiaarchaic

• 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 m

A tattoo.slang

• 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.

To apply a tattoo.slangtransitive

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

Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”).UKalt-ofalternative

Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).alt-ofalternative

Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.

• The article seems an attempt at tit-for-tat; but there is too little tat, even in Bedouins, to provoke such a maze of tit as is found in “'Bedouins' and Nomads.”
• [...] insecurity, anger engender the excessive retaliation of two tits for a tat that leads not to damping-down but to [escalation].