tat

1. 1.

   make lacework by knotting or looping

   Synonymsintertwine

   Broadercreate from raw material

   handicraft

Other forms of tat

plural

tats·

past tense or participle

tatted

present participle

tatting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tat

What does tat mean?

tat means "tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tat?

tat has 1 syllable: tat. In IPA it is /ˈtæt/.

What is another word for tat?

Close synonyms include cheapness, tackiness, sleaze, Thematic Apperception Test, intertwine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tat a common word?

tat is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tat?

2 words rhyme with tat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.