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Definition sleeve tattoo in British English

sleeve tattoo noun

noun
1

a tattoo (= a permanent picture that is drawn on a part of your body by putting ink into your skin with a needle) which covers the arm, or sometimes another part of the body

Example

It has also become quite common to pick a leg sleeve tattoo which runs along the whole leg or part of the leg.

Example

I now think of my sleeve as a form of socially legitimised self-harm, done at a time when I was agonising about my career.

Definition sleeve tattoo in British English