tramp stamp

noun

informal + sometimes disparaging : a tattoo located on a woman's lower back

Many a college kid came home from spring break, football weekends and out-of-state summer internships with university logos, tramp stamps (lower-back tattoos) and sorority/fraternity letters.

—Ginny Graham

She now finds herself embarrassed by the original tattoo, in part because … lower-back tattoos have come to take on a derogatory name: the tramp stamp.

—Hayley Krischer

Word History

First Known Use

2004, in the meaning defined above