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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rat-uh-tat or rat-uh-tat-tat |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈræt əˈtæt or ˈræt əˌtætˈtæt |
Definition of rat-a-tat
Origin :- 1680s, echoic, originally of a cooper hammering tubs.
- As in patter : noun light walk; soft beat
- As in roll : noun growl, reverberation
- A little while after they heard a rat-a-tat at the garden door.
- Extract from : « Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book » by Edmund Dulac
- Then they heard a rat-a-tat, and the voice of their mother calling: 'Here!
- Extract from : « Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book » by Edmund Dulac
- It was probably that, with some of the shells in the rack, that made all that rat-a-tat.
- Extract from : « Sea-Hounds » by Lewis R. Freeman
- The other guns quickly took up the rat-a-tat; the range was sent to the other five guns.
- Extract from : « New Zealanders at Gallipoli » by Major Fred Waite
- Rat-a-tat, rat′-a-tat′, n. sound of repeated knocks, as of a drumstick.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
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