tattoo

1. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
2. A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
2. To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.

   Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

1. A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
2. A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
3. A military display or pageant.

verb

To tap rhythmically on, to drum.

noun

A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.