tattoo

An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.

His shirt sleeves were turned up, so upon his brawny arms his tattooes were visible.

Nothing pleases a Burman more than to be asked to show his tattooes. He is as delighted as a collector of curios in England. They consist of a series of pictures of tigers, lions, elephants, dragons, demons, and what-not, surrounded by mottoes invoking good fortune, and round waist and knees the whole is framed by a neat floral or scroll pattern.

A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).

She made Silas tattoo an anchor on her arm like his

To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.

Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).

Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.

A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.

The bumblebee's mane glowed in the morning light—each hair sharp and distinct to Eragon—and its blurred wings generated a gentle bombilation, like a tattoo played on a drum.

A military display or pageant.

A rhythmic tapping.

the right hand became restless and began to beat out a silent tattoo upon the tabletop