Synonyms of the word tatter


TATTERRAG - SHRED - TAG

tatter

  • n. A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
  • n. A person engaged in tatting.
  • v. To destroy an article of clothing by shredding.

rag

  • n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
  • n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
  • n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
  • n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
  • n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
  • n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
  • n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
  • v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
  • n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
  • v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
  • v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
  • v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
  • v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
  • v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
  • v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
  • n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
  • n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
  • n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

shred

  • n. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
  • n. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
  • v. To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
  • v. (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
  • v. (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
  • v. (music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).

tag

  • n. A small label.
  • n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
  • n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
  • n. A type of cardboard.
  • n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
  • n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  • n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
  • n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
  • n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  • n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
  • n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
  • n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  • n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  • n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  • n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  • n. A sheep in its first year.
  • n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
  • n. (slang) A person's name.
  • v. (transitive) To label (something).
  • v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
  • v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
  • v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
  • v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  • v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  • v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
  • v. To fasten; to attach.
  • n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

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