Tattoos With Secret Meanings

Before you get that tattoo, you may want to know how it may be understood, or misunderstood, by those who see it. Worried that the dude with the teardrop tat just killed someone? Maybe. Maybe not. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyy48lGBtpwuik32Ey0Nk7RZgbRGedCn4M9TGIwzJQSqw9fBAvzi6xYIj2q_FWLMCSY-SdrTAnowgSBmlxq_1B1TVAuM50W0Tt6OwlMIU0e_ul7Bx7K3_n7hy60elr2fN9jyii7K-osNQ/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyy48lGBtpwuik32Ey0Nk7RZgbRGedCn4M9TGIwzJQSqw9fBAvzi6xYIj2q_FWLMCSY-SdrTAnowgSBmlxq_1B1TVAuM50W0Tt6OwlMIU0e_ul7Bx7K3_n7hy60elr2fN9jyii7K-osNQ/s1600/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Dot to Dot</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">See a lot of three-dot tattoos making a sort of triangle? It represents "Mi Vida Loca" or "my crazy life" and is usually used by Hispanics and often by Hispanic gangs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZktqEoCvtzwNj_7vo8qIoCirkFnLjyUt9dwoV06QgyOpcmJnQGuUBXIQypI7H_CDSfXhrRgiAkMMfbMf5jwmi2U59W7A_ToaHLm2121MIUt25MFgC4nLY0_9fOsXD_99Dbz4nPV-Kr8/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZktqEoCvtzwNj_7vo8qIoCirkFnLjyUt9dwoV06QgyOpcmJnQGuUBXIQypI7H_CDSfXhrRgiAkMMfbMf5jwmi2U59W7A_ToaHLm2121MIUt25MFgC4nLY0_9fOsXD_99Dbz4nPV-Kr8/s1600/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Is He Really a Killer?</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">We've all heard the urban legend. If you have a teardrop tattoo, it means you've killed someone. Sometimes. But not always. Amar'e Stoudemire got his to pay homage to his dead brother. When asked about his teardrop, Lil Wayne, shown here, merely replied, "Lord, forgive me."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKQnZy_zC_oL7xanABYQ8ZPI4fWAn-_O9zz39VJR6HvFrKgf6d_WGBQfRE5ywwdLQUPgQtIIsSS0fruMVGuvwSwTyvRajlD4CluTITOI_zTMT7tr9f2jPt_Gexgai8ugiKsdJeAFnTxs/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKQnZy_zC_oL7xanABYQ8ZPI4fWAn-_O9zz39VJR6HvFrKgf6d_WGBQfRE5ywwdLQUPgQtIIsSS0fruMVGuvwSwTyvRajlD4CluTITOI_zTMT7tr9f2jPt_Gexgai8ugiKsdJeAFnTxs/s1600/3.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Every King Needs His Crown</h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em;">The five-point crown identifies the wearer as a member of the Latin Kings gang. A.L.K.N. stands for Almighty Latin King Nation.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5ztic5003XNARqtECcikVxcDB7W-tMv_XdTJVF0ApkXw3IC3Kc5kvGqbnQLXf1pDT6wawEzxLU6JIjuEng2Oc3hVXS856aa2xKRgu3sAhnPlUSi8z52465iPkREHx04_5y8lPoLselU/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5ztic5003XNARqtECcikVxcDB7W-tMv_XdTJVF0ApkXw3IC3Kc5kvGqbnQLXf1pDT6wawEzxLU6JIjuEng2Oc3hVXS856aa2xKRgu3sAhnPlUSi8z52465iPkREHx04_5y8lPoLselU/s1600/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Like Five on Dice</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">Go up to five dots and it means something else entirely. The four dots on the outside represent prison wall and the one dot in the center represents the inmate. Therefore the tat represents that the wearer spent time in prison.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7mjNyj9wogQQi6hnKdLmQGxbvBlIs8IYQo5Nmo6KaNx0x_u3VSosa8OPRX2dwD_3tzvoGjDWCzDpC2iZozlMNBAuGBxZyOU61IvWXnzFf57Nqs2NqSgqOuEQCvmIe6psITCBX8sMmIgY/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7mjNyj9wogQQi6hnKdLmQGxbvBlIs8IYQo5Nmo6KaNx0x_u3VSosa8OPRX2dwD_3tzvoGjDWCzDpC2iZozlMNBAuGBxZyOU61IvWXnzFf57Nqs2NqSgqOuEQCvmIe6psITCBX8sMmIgY/s1600/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Masters of the South</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">"Sureño" means "southerner" in Spanish and the tat is identified with the Mexican Mafia. The number 13 can identify the letter M and a member of the Mexican Mafia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbO0Ty3ulFo9wxIrG0BCG6gvJ0D2QGd-f5NKpPA5GGG-dLUxMQRpBm47Mziz5MdxchkT4cttoLuhG-suTY7k4-8a852C2ztsNd1fUzbP3JO4gaUFU59wG-RM88P14KWWL47bZuxlQSdA/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbO0Ty3ulFo9wxIrG0BCG6gvJ0D2QGd-f5NKpPA5GGG-dLUxMQRpBm47Mziz5MdxchkT4cttoLuhG-suTY7k4-8a852C2ztsNd1fUzbP3JO4gaUFU59wG-RM88P14KWWL47bZuxlQSdA/s1600/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">North Versus South</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">If there is a Sureño, there must be a Norteño which, yes, means "northerner," which can also be represented by an "N" and the number 14, the 14th letter of the alphabet. This tattoo represents the sworn enemies of the Mexican Mafia, members of Nuestra Familia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAduUeTb65VvM6jZLv8bENVlEGdooeuWNEpzC7WH6XDbuX5kaD2jHmclxMg7xB1o1yZXaY7IugB8z8uHkrBYarEqy7_1fJ5yadoiqSo-ntU0NjvNZVG7RFWnEzCXQfQ7BBC-4NJRqLE4/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAduUeTb65VvM6jZLv8bENVlEGdooeuWNEpzC7WH6XDbuX5kaD2jHmclxMg7xB1o1yZXaY7IugB8z8uHkrBYarEqy7_1fJ5yadoiqSo-ntU0NjvNZVG7RFWnEzCXQfQ7BBC-4NJRqLE4/s1600/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Luck O' The Irish</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">OK, a little care here. Lots of people think the shamrock is kind of cute, especially if they're drunk and it's St. Patrick's Day. But if the wearer seems a little intimidating there's a good chance he's a member of the Aryan Brotherhood.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLiETpkkCUo3O3C5bW074d-w2Lr5tqJwhNp8rkg-Wvcbd-XTI-WgLNKne6NGjIN-p92nYdSdCNk-Ayoxnx2uax7rK-B9JsaJWWVcLN8PHpcjOD-nLIawgWUoVNK9det2b0uZA7W2AiKn8/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLiETpkkCUo3O3C5bW074d-w2Lr5tqJwhNp8rkg-Wvcbd-XTI-WgLNKne6NGjIN-p92nYdSdCNk-Ayoxnx2uax7rK-B9JsaJWWVcLN8PHpcjOD-nLIawgWUoVNK9det2b0uZA7W2AiKn8/s1600/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Peckerwood</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">Remember the sweet, innocent cartoon Woody Woodpecker? Well, white-power gangs have found a way to turn him into a racist symbol. Evidently, peckerwood was at some point a derisive term used by some blacks to refer to whites. Racist white gangs co-opted the symbol, and Woody himself, as a symbol of white supremacy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DNB2OwhCxtbzmMZLw1R5JAGy1M5oKPgui4KoTDsmvP2pVJIjBX23HWSXLbrpEDIft4Ul5SdXZQv_qiR3DszmzR_q6AMv7qftFafdNVa6hx4-EjewH-CJdx14gnvvg7boL3RyqIozdww/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DNB2OwhCxtbzmMZLw1R5JAGy1M5oKPgui4KoTDsmvP2pVJIjBX23HWSXLbrpEDIft4Ul5SdXZQv_qiR3DszmzR_q6AMv7qftFafdNVa6hx4-EjewH-CJdx14gnvvg7boL3RyqIozdww/s1600/9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Caught in the Web</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">Just as prey is caught in the web of the spider, the wearer of a spiderweb tattoo usually had been caught in the prison system.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sJTDF0g7c8Oc-TL2D5f7E6Ox3_FDrCryEzBD5CXAURrLeN1ovcCCVqF4Ni4AQWBgfXJLfGa_ZbjizVbqP7tyQjXDHleFkcBX_hbqkN-EU3qF09Xy_DwTqpnS9F5uc1s941hVtGug-SY/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sJTDF0g7c8Oc-TL2D5f7E6Ox3_FDrCryEzBD5CXAURrLeN1ovcCCVqF4Ni4AQWBgfXJLfGa_ZbjizVbqP7tyQjXDHleFkcBX_hbqkN-EU3qF09Xy_DwTqpnS9F5uc1s941hVtGug-SY/s1600/10.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">Anchors Aweigh</h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;">Not all tattoo meanings are ominous. To deserve an anchor tattoo, you generally need to have served in the U.S. Navy.</div>

Tattoos With Secret Meanings

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