Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a tattoo.

Etymologies

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tattoo +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Even though the production mixes period costumes with flashes of punk aesthetic (band posters on jackets, tattoolike makeup designed by the actors), "everybody is still in 17th-century Prague," says Kyd.

    Backstage: 'Burn Your Bookes' at Taffety Punk, Folger's 2010-2011 season 2010

  • On the back of Ari's neck was a tattoolike line of numbers.

    Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • On the back of Ari's neck was a tattoolike line of numbers.

    Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • It's a departure from the smaller-scale work that made Dr. Lakra's reputation: tattoolike drawings that he inks on found objects like dolls, toys and girlie pictures culled from midcentury magazines.

    NYT > Home Page By CAROL KINO 2011

  • Back at the Greenpoint Coffee House, sliding a purple jar of pickled “fennel beets” around the table — each jar was affixed with the company’s tattoolike label — Mr. Jones predicted an interminable rise for picklemania.

    The Pickle Posse 2009

  • Back at the Greenpoint Coffee House, sliding a purple jar of pickled “fennel beets” around the table — each jar was affixed with the company’s tattoolike label — Mr. Jones predicted an interminable rise for picklemania.

    The Pickle Posse 2009

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