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Rl vs Tattoo - What's the difference?

rl | tattoo |

As nouns the difference between rl and tattoo

is that rl is while tattoo is tattoo.

As an initialism rl

is .

rl

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (en proper noun)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet slang, uncountable)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1997 , title = Doom Patrols : A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism , author = Steven Shaviro , publisher = Serpent's Tail , location = London , page = 138 , isbn = 9781852424305 , lccn = 9668813 , passage = I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like. }}

    See also

    * IRL * OOC

    tattoo

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia tattoo) (en noun)
  • An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
  • A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.

    • Verb

  • To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
  • (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
    • Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

    Derived terms

    * tatt * tattoo artist * tattoo parlour *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) taptoe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
  • A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
  • A military display or pageant.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) tatt? .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.