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tattoo poaching

Hanging out in and around tattoo studios and gaining clientele and undercutting the prices of the shop and expanding your business simultaneously.
I was just in town doing some tattoo poaching and I met this amazing woman and I think I'm in love!
tattoo poaching by anonymous May 18, 2024

tattoo poaching

Gaining clients by meeting them at a tattoo parlor and undercutting their pricing as well.
I was just in town doing some tattoo poaching and met this amazing woman and I think I'm in love.

tattoo poacher 

One who gains clientele by frequenting tattoo shops or parlors and undercutting their prices.
What's that guy up to? Awe, he's just a tattoo poacher.

tattoo therapy 

The urge and eventual feeling of relief you get when you want a tattoo and get it on you.
Alex got some tattoo therapy today at the studio. He ended up getting a dragon, a snake, a dagger, and a wolf on his body. The overall price he paid was $1700

Black heart tattoo 

A black heart tattoo is a solider stamp you get it tatted on the left side of your eye when you kill someone or have put in work
I'm bout to go get my black heart tattoo you know I earned that.

Teardrop tattoo 

A tattoo of a teardrop, under the eye of a person that has been raped in prison.

The teardrop tattoo is humiliating as the prisoner had the tattoo forced onto them and it may also indicate they're someone else's property, to be sold and traded throughout the penitentiary.

An urban myth exists in some circles that the teardrop means the wearer is a murderer; this myth was likely started by those that have been raped and 'teardropped' in prison. Some will even foolishly get these thinking it will earn them respect because they've seen tough looking lifers and ex-cons wearing them, not realising these guys were once weak/jumped and raped when they first entered prison long ago.

When you think about it... Can you imagine a murderer who wants others to fear them, asking a tattooist, 'Please place a tiny tattoo on my face that makes me look like I'm crying."
Hahahaha it just doesn't happen. Except for a few circumstances, crying is frowned upon in the penitentiary; it's a sign of weakness. A murderer and a rape victim are polar opposites of the prisoner spectrum and realistically, would you cry after murdering someone or after being raped?

More recently, trendy rappers, hipsters, etc. who want people to feel sorry for them, get the tattoo thinking they'll fool others into believing they're grieving and perhaps some of them are, not realising that in prison terms it means they are in fact grieving their anal virginity and 'street' innocence.
See that guy with the teardrop tattoo ... he was raped in prison.
Teardrop tattoo by Chad the gooch October 1, 2019