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Gat vs Tat - What's the difference?

gat | tat |

In lang=en terms the difference between gat and tat

is that gat is to shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm while tat is a tattoo.

As a proper noun Tat is

an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.

gat

English

Etymology 1

From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
  • Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
  • * 1939 , .
  • You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.
  • * 1988 ,
  • Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
    With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

    Verb

    (gatt)
  • (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
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  • Etymology 2

    From (m), by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand, slang) A guitar
  • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (get)
  • And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 1927)

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    tat

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
  • Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
  • (India) Gunnycloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius or jute.
  • (slang) A tattoo.
  • Verb

  • (intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India, dated) A pony.
  • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * rat-a-tat-tat * tit for tat * tatt * tatting * tatty

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