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I love this one!!! The teardrop tattoo of yore is a prison mark meaning 'mother's tears' as in your brother dies while you are in prison, and you were not home to help mom out.....The family may have fallen on hard times and needed you there to work and bring in some money, but you couldn't help cause you were in prison......
Sometime in the early 80's American International pictures brought out a coupla movies in which gang members wore the teardrops for 'taking care of business', i.e. killing a rival gang member, and thus cemented the concept of the teardrops tattoos on the average movie goers mind....But don't think every one you meet with these marks on them are hardened killers or even ex-cons, they may be posers, or just think they need a reminder of a panful time in their life.....Hope this helps.........
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What does a tattoo of an eye with a teardrop coming from it mean?
It means that you have a tattoo of an eye with a teardrop...
What does a teardrop tattoo under the left eye symbolize?
The person with the teardrop tattoo killed someone.
What does teardrop tattoo under left eye mean?
1 tear drop = 10 years in prison
What is the symbolism of a teardrop tattoo?
when people have one or more teardrops under their eyes there usually part of gangs. if they have a filled in teardrop, that means they killed a person. if they have a non-filled teardrop it means that they have lost somebody. you can have more than one teardrop under an eye, and more than one of each. i doesn't matter which eye it is under. A half-filled teardrop may also mean the death of a friend, vidicated by the wearer.
What does the filled in tear drop tattoo mean?
The teardrop tattoo or tear tattoo is a symbolic tattoo that is placed underneath the eye. The tattoo can have several meanings, including signifying the number of years spent in prison, the loss of a loved one or fellow gang member, or the fact that the wearer has killed someone.
