tattoo: Meaning and Definition of

tat•too

1. a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
2. a knocking or strong pulsation: My heart beat a tattoo on my ribs.
3. an outdoor military pageant or display.

tat•too

1. the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
2. a pattern, picture, legend, etc., so made.

1. to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
2. to put (tattoos) on the skin.