tat : Idioms & Phrases

• noun Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
  Ho Chi Minh.
  

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• noun a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
  rat-a-tat; rat-a-tat-tat.
  

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• noun a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
  rat-a-tat; rat-a-tat-tat.
  

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• noun a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
  rat-a-tat; rat-a-tat-tat.
  

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• noun an equivalent given in return
  

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• . Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow. An equivalent; retaliation.

Webster 1913

• noun a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
  noughts and crosses; tic-tac-toe; ticktacktoe; tick-tack-toe; ticktacktoo.
  

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