Usually means: Reciprocal action, mirroring another's behavior.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word tit for tat:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tit for tat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tit-for-tat, tit for tat: Merriam-Webster
  3. tit for tat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tit-for-tat, tit-for-tat, tit for tat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tit for tat: Vocabulary.com
  6. tit-for-tat, tit for tat: Wordnik
  7. tit-for-tat, tit for tat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tit-for-tat, tit for tat: Wiktionary
  9. tit for tat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tit for tat: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tit for tat: Dictionary.com
  12. Tit for Tat (Ain't No Taking Back), Tit for Tat (disambiguation), Tit for Tat (novel), Tit for Tat, Tit-for-tat, Tit for tat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. tit for tat: Rhymezone
  14. TIT FOR TAT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. Tit for Tat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. tit for tat: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tit for tat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Tit-for-tat, tit for tat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tit-for-tat: Glossary of research economics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tit-for-tat: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. tit-for-tat: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tit-for-Tat: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tit for tat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tit for tat: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tit_for_tats as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tit for tat)

noun:  (idiomatic) Equivalent retribution; an act of returning exactly what one gets; an eye for an eye.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A hat.

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