tat up

present singular third person tats up · participle present tatting up · participle past tatted up · past tatted up

1. literallytransitiveTo apply a tattoo.

   He's tatting up that client.

2. intransitivetransitiveTo get tattoos.

   The sailor tatted up throughout his lifetime.

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   Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; […]

   2015 April 19, Joaquin Sapien, “"The worst elements of the department": New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet”, in Salon