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RAT-TAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rat-tat mean?
• RAT-TAT (noun)
The noun RAT-TAT has 1 sense:
1. a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
Familiarity information: RAT-TAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
rat-a-tat; rat-a-tat-tat; rat-tat
Hypernyms ("rat-tat" is a kind of...):
tapping (the sound of light blow or knock)
Context examples
“It is just possible that—” His words were interrupted by a sharp rat-tat from the direction of the inner door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My thoughts were back in Sussex, and I was dreaming of the kindly, simple ways of the country, when there came a rat-tat at the knocker, the ring of a hearty voice, and there, in the doorway, was the smiling, weather-beaten face, with the puckered eyelids and the light blue eyes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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