tat

CEFRB2

/tæt/

noun · verb

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2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music Write on me / Love the way you tat me up
She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."

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And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever."
2004 May 28, Thomas Sutcliffe, “Why Britart is a burning issue”, in The Independent
She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
1971, David Bowie, “Queen Bitch”, in Hunky Dory
The article seems an attempt at tit-for-tat; but there is too little tat, even in Bedouins, to provoke such a maze of tit as is found in “'Bedouins' and Nomads.”
1920, The Creighton Chronicle, page 294
[...] insecurity, anger engender the excessive retaliation of two tits for a tat that leads not to damping-down but to [escalation].
1999 May 18, D. Reisman, Conserative Capitalism: The Social Economy, Springer, →ISBN, page 122
At the U.S. planning sessions, it was not uncommon to hear someone say, "Just remember, when you're negotiating tit-for-tat, it's better to concede the occasional small tat to your opponent and keep the big tits for yourself."
2002 May 1, G.H. Spaulding, C-C-Cold War Syndrome Or, Remember, It's Break Ground and Fly into the Wind, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

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From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).