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Meaning:

Noun:

  • a military display or pageant
  • A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.
  • 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.
  • An image made in the skin with ink and a needle
  • a signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters
  • nautical A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out)
  • rfd-sense nautical From taptoe, the time to close the taps.

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Verb:

  • baseball To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball
  • To apply a tattoo (to someone or something)

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