Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A titmouse.
- n. Any of various small, similar or related birds.
- adj. New England & Upstate New York Small; undersized.
- n. Vulgar Slang A woman's breast.
- n. A teat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mech., a round projection on a tool or other piece to serve as a guide. A tit is usually made on the end of a counterbore, so that the hole made by it shall be concentric with the hole which it is desired to enlarge.
- n. An abbreviation of title; [capitalized] of Titus (a book of the New Testament).
- n. A teat. See teat.
- n. One of several small birds. Specifically
- n. A small or poor horse.
- n. A child; a girl; a young woman: a depreciatory term.
- n. A bit; morsel.
- n. In the phrase tit for tat (literally, in the original form tip for tap, ‘blow for blow’), a retaliatory return; an equivalent by way of repartee or answer: as, to give a person tit for tat in a dispute or a war of wit.
- To pull tightly.
- n. A pull.
- A Middle English variant of tite.
Wiktionary
- n. A mammary gland, teat.
- n. A woman's breast.
- n. An idiot; a fool.
- n. A light blow or hit (now usually in phrase tit for tat).
- n. A small passerine bird of the genus Parus or the family Paridae, common in the northern hemisphere.
- n. A small horse; a nag.
- n. A young girl, later especially a minx, hussy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small horse.
- n. A woman; -- used in contempt.
- n. A morsel; a bit.
- n. Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families
Paridæ andLeiotrichidæ ; a titmouse. - n. The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
WordNet 3.0
- n. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- n. small insectivorous birds
- n. the small projection of a mammary gland
Etymologies
- Short for titmouse. Adj., Middle English tit-, as in titmose, titmouse; see titmouse.Middle English, from Old English titt.
Examples
“One approach for the Right is to engage in tit for tat.”
From Galbraith to Spitzer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In an effort to avert a possible trade war that could damage the global economic recovery, the Group of 20 members also pledged not to engage in tit-for-tat currency devaluations.”
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“There exists a "bad equilibrium" in tit-for-tat, wherein once someone has transgressed, one party has to be willing to take a short-term loss relative to the other party to re-establish trust.”
“If Obama supporters are going to engage in tit for tat ping pong arguments and insults, believe me it will get nowhere. republicans are better at that!”
“The Somalis on the CIA payroll engaged in tit-for-tat exchanges of kidnappings and assassinations with extremists.”
“He is focused on winning the long game not short term tit for tat.”
Obama Took Heat Early On For Being Too Soft On Hillary, Remember?
“I recently read Axelrod's "Evolution of Cooperation" and was struck by how effective a long term tit-for-tat strategy would be politically.”
“This strategy is usually called tit-for-tat: You scratch my back, I scratch yours; you don't scratch my back, I don't scratch yours.”
“At the same time, the number of Iraqis found slain, apparently in tit-for-tat killings by Shiite and Sunni extremists, has sharply increased in western neighborhoods.”
“Described in 1871 by A. Hume, the Ground tit is a weak-flying brown passerine of the Tibetan plateau, often superficially likened to a wheatear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tit’.
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 107 more...
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 137 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 154 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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barrels of cocks
werdz
niggerbaby, niggerhouse, lol, mage, tit, dragonslayer, fuck, ninety-one, lolcat, diddy, nitty, what and 3 more...
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Palindromes
left to right to right to left.
esssse, dad, mom, tit, tat, madam, lewd did i live a..., aibohphobia, bob, harassarah, abba, detartrated
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sick out
words that make me want to die
girth, panties, cunt, pussy, tit, masticate, trickle, drip, fornicate

reesetee Thanks, VO--I was probably anticipating a flurry of delightful wisecracks from other Wordies. I do like the phrase "spectacular pre-WeirdNetting," though. :-)
Bilby, that hurts just thinking about it. Nov 29, 2007
bilby Soft? Fleshy? What on earth are they used for? Nov 29, 2007
vanishedone Or for tat?
Edit: hang on; we didn't have WeirdNet nine months ago, since I arrived before it did and that wasn't so long ago; so it just looks as though reesetee was answering the definition. A spectacular pre-WeirdNetting. Nov 29, 2007
reesetee The bird, you pervert. ;-) Feb 13, 2007