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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Repayment in kind, as for an injury; retaliation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. idiomatic equivalent retribution, an eye for an eye, returning exactly what you get.
  2. n. Cockney rhyming slang hat.
  3. adj. Having the characteristic of returning bad for bad.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An equivalent; retaliation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an equivalent given in return

Etymologies

  1. Probably alteration of tip for tap. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • strev how about a nice flower illustration then? Jun 17, 2009

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‘tit for tat’ has been looked up 1670 times, added to 12 lists, commented on 1 time, and is not a valid Scrabble word.