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Tat has 12 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

"The party decorations were so tacky tat that everyone left feeling embarrassed."

2

a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture

"The therapist showed us the inkblots and asked everyone to describe what story they would make up for each tat."

3

Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.

"The pilot adjusted the aircraft's sensors to monitor changes in the TAT as they climbed through the cloud layer."

4

A pony.

5

A tattoo.

6

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

7

A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.

8

Initialism of total air temperature.

Verb
1

make lacework by knotting or looping

"She spent hours tatting a delicate doily to cover the empty plate on her grandmother's table."

2

To make (something by) tatting.

"He decided to go get his old tribal design tat over the shoulder before heading out for the weekend."

3

To apply a tattoo.

Proper Noun
1

A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.

"The linguist spent years documenting the last fluent speakers of the ancient Tat dialect before it vanished completely."

See Also
sleaze trinket cheap armenia tatting pony dagestan tattoo
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
tastelessness projective test create from raw material
Rhyming Words
etat stat mutat aetat lestat mentat diktat perstat rat tat biostat habitat latitat antistat compstat cryostat auxostat pyrostat gyrostat aerostat hemostat
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