tat up

English

Verb

tat up (third-person singular simple present tats up, present participle tatting up, simple past and past participle tatted up)

  1. (transitive, literally) To apply a tattoo.
    He's tatting up that client.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To get tattoos.
    The sailor tatted up throughout his lifetime.
    • 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[1]:
      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; […]
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