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say it: tat-OO
tattoo is a noun and verb meaning "a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters". It is pronounced /ˌtæˈtu/ — tat-OO. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
military
a design on the skin made by tattooing
the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining
stain (skin) with indelible color
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tattoo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.