tat n.2
(Aus./US) any confidence trick; usu. performed with dice; also attrib.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Perth) 1 Oct. 4/7: Should you flout his ‘joey-rail’ / (That’s Australian for a tale) - / He will say you’re ‘not the nail / For a tat’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Broadway Racketeers 222: The Tat mob generally consists of two operators, a man and a woman who work together. | |
| Und. Speaks n.p.: The tat, confidence game worked by men and attractive woman, usually in a restaurant by attracting attention of and meeting victim whom they plan to fleece or rob. | |
| Big Con 309: The tat. A crooked dice swindle worked by grifters in night clubs. The mark is allowed to find a die (sometimes made from a sugar cube) and is inveigled into a betting game.That tat is substituted for the square die when the operator throws and the mark is fleeced. Also up and down Broadway. |
In phrases
(Aus.) to fool, to play a confidence trick on.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Apr. 14/4: A hunk of bush phraseology:– ‘Yes, ole Brown was a reg’lar ole coot, a right down pukacker. Yer could ring a tatt into him anytime. He rolled ’is marble in last year – too much nose-paint, yer know.’ Which all meant merely that Brown was shiftless and credulous and had died through excessive drinking. |