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Meanings of rat-a-tat in English

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A series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)

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Examples for "rat-tat"
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At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth.
To-morrow
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The voices broke off, and a rat-tat sounded on the front door.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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A thundering rat-tat-tat at the hall door brought Jones to his feet.
The Man Who Lost Himself
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Here Mrs. Butler souded a loud rat-tat on the Bells' hall door.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
5
In the same moment there sounded again a rat-tat at the outer door.
The Whirlpool
1
The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival.
In Cold Blood
2
I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat.
Further adventures
3
The crack of Kalashnikov fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun fill the air.
The Irish Times
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They all need to supply the crackling rat-a-tat-tat dialogue you might find in a Capote novel.
News.com.au
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Concentration on what is being said is further stymied by the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the lines.
Reuters
Usage of rat-a-tat in English
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The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival.
In Cold Blood
2
I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat.
Further adventures
3
The B-movie genre's rat-a-tat dialogue sounded like sure box office.
Reuters
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And not just because of the at-first-impenetrable, hard-boiled, rat-a-tat dialogue and dizzying plot twists.
The Guardian
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To a child's ears the rat-a-tat of laminated linen against spokes was engine noise.
Wired
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His involvement in the rat-a-tat of passes that pre-empted Maxi Rodríguez's goal was almost inevitable.
The Guardian
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The crack of Kalashnikov fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun fill the air.
The Irish Times
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They all need to supply the crackling rat-a-tat-tat dialogue you might find in a Capote novel.
News.com.au
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Concentration on what is being said is further stymied by the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the lines.
Reuters
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The rat-a-tat-tat of the drums calls them forward.
Getting old is tres dangereux
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They got past Thurles with a couple of rat-a-tat points in the last three minutes of extra-time.
The Irish Times
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Air raid sirens began howling, then the litany of rat-a-tat-tat from anti-aircraft artillery for half an hour.
The Irish Times
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Juventus were about to be pierced by the rat-a-tat-tat of three more goals in breathtakingly quick succession.
The Guardian
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Three gasping coughs in rapid succession, rat-a-tat-tat.
Lit: a memoir
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Captain Murphy grinned, impressed at the rat-a-tat.
Secret of the seventh son
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Merrill Grant will lead them to the chuppah, at the music cue of a rat-a-tat-tat on the drums.
Getting old is tres dangereux
Translations for rat-a-tat