Week #21: Tattoo is OPEN!
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Ho yay. :) Blame
neevebrody for re-posting an awesome photo from Joe Flanigan's twitter on daily-flan, but it reminded us tattoos show up more than once in SGA, and with different meanings.
tat·too
[ta-too]
noun, plural -toos.
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. British . an outdoor military pageant or display.
4. the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
5. a pattern, picture, legend, etc., so made.
verb (used with object)
6. to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
7. to put (tattoos) on the skin.
Origin:
1760–70; < Marquesan tatu; replacing tattow < Tahitian tatau
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tat·too
[ta-too]
noun, plural -toos.
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. British . an outdoor military pageant or display.
4. the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
5. a pattern, picture, legend, etc., so made.
verb (used with object)
6. to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
7. to put (tattoos) on the skin.
Origin:
1760–70; < Marquesan tatu; replacing tattow < Tahitian tatau