In practice, sure—if nothing else, it means they wanted a tattoo. The mere presence of a tattoo has some cultural relevance, even if the particular design is otherwise meaningless. (Unless they got it involuntarily like an Auschwitz tattoo, which still has meaning of a different kind.)
In practice, sure—if nothing else, it means they wanted a tattoo. The mere presence of a tattoo has some cultural relevance, even if the particular design is otherwise meaningless. (Unless they got it involuntarily like an Auschwitz tattoo, which still has meaning of a different kind.)
You could say it’s something that will leave a mark.