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Meanings of rat-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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Usage of rat-tat in English
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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
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In the same moment there sounded again a rat-tat at the outer door.
The Whirlpool
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Even at that height I could hear the methodical rat-tat-tat of the machine-guns.
Mr. Standfast
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There are the dull thuds of explosions and an occasional rat-tat-tat.
A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916
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He was interrupted by a loud rat-tat at the outer door.
The Odd Women
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Kephart went back into the cabin, and the typewriter's rat-tat-tat began.
Serena
10
Not a ring, but a hard rat-tat on the hobbit's beautiful green door.
The hobbit: or there and back again
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But these graceful synths are matched with a relentless chiptunes-style, rat-tat-tat drum beat.
The Irish Times
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The rat-tat-tat of opportunity for some, the final bit of well-worn rope for others.
The Irish Times
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The first sound I heard the next morning was the rat-tat-too of a drum.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 / A Magazine...
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Again the rat-tat-tat upon the panel, more peremptory than before.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
16
Various sounds, transit of shells, bursting of shells, crashing of near-by cannon, and rat-tat-tat-tat!
A Volunteer Poilu
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Rat-tat through the time