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Rat-tat   /ræt-tæt/   Listen
Rat-tat

noun
1.
A series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door).  Synonyms: rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat-tat.






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"Rat-tat" Quotes from Famous Books



... company of a broken rabble. Reaching Dunkeld in an exhausted condition early in the following morning, he and a few comrades found shelter in the house of a friend. But as they sat, about to fall to on a much needed meal, down the little street came the "rat-tat-tat" of a drum, and past the window swaggered an unkempt Highland drummer, halting at intervals to hurl defiance at all Whigs, and a challenge to them to fight the famous Highland champion, Rory Dhu Mhor. And this is something ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... gun fire, and directly he started sweeping we would be down like a flash, and wait till Fritz quit. Fat would be in a shell hole almost as soon as the first shot was fired, and would laugh at Bink looking for a hole to hide in. Bink would get sore; all you could hear was the rat-tat-tat of the machine gun and in between "Tee hee, tee hee" from Fat as he lay and watched Bink crawling around looking for a hole. Some of the boys would lie in the hole and wave their legs in the air hoping ...
— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien



Words linked to "Rat-tat" :   tapping, rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat-tat



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