tattoo¹ /ta-, tə-tooˈ/, earlier tatu /tə-tooˈ/ and tattow /-towˈ/

A design marked on the skin by pricking in indelible dyes

1. To mark (the skin) in this way
2. To produce (a design) in this way

tattooˈer or tattooˈist noun

• hard left
• hard line
• hardline
• hardliner
• hardliners
• hard lines
• hard luck
• hard-luck story
• hardly
• hardly able to believe one's ears
• hardly able to believe one's eyes
• hardly good enough
• hard man
• hard measures
• hard men
• hard-metal
• hard money
• hardmouthed
• hardness
• hardnesses
• hardnosed
• hard of hearing
• hardoke
• hardokes
• hard on