[pl.] clothes or pieces of fabric that are badly torn:
a beggar dressed in tatters
IDIOMS
in tatters
1 torn in many places:
His clothes were in tatters.
2 ruined or badly damaged:
Her reputation was in tatters. * The government's education policy lies in tatters.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tatters is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tatters a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tatters is tagged as noun.
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