A series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
1The sound, not unlike the rat-a-tat-tat of parade drums, heralded Hickock's arrival.
2I drummed my fingers rat-a-tat-tat on the wagon wheel place mat.
3The B-movie genre's rat-a-tat dialogue sounded like sure box office.
4And not just because of the at-first-impenetrable, hard-boiled, rat-a-tat dialogue and dizzying plot twists.
5To a child's ears the rat-a-tat of laminated linen against spokes was engine noise.
6His involvement in the rat-a-tat of passes that pre-empted Maxi Rodríguez's goal was almost inevitable.
7The crack of Kalashnikov fire and the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun fill the air.
8They all need to supply the crackling rat-a-tat-tat dialogue you might find in a Capote novel.
9Concentration on what is being said is further stymied by the rat-a-tat-tat delivery of the lines.
10The rat-a-tat-tat of the drums calls them forward.
11They got past Thurles with a couple of rat-a-tat points in the last three minutes of extra-time.
12Air raid sirens began howling, then the litany of rat-a-tat-tat from anti-aircraft artillery for half an hour.
13Juventus were about to be pierced by the rat-a-tat-tat of three more goals in breathtakingly quick succession.
14Three gasping coughs in rapid succession, rat-a-tat-tat.
15Captain Murphy grinned, impressed at the rat-a-tat.
16Merrill Grant will lead them to the chuppah, at the music cue of a rat-a-tat-tat on the drums.
Translations for rat-a-tat