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US
/ˈɹætəˈtæt/
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NOUN
- a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
How To Use rat-a-tat In A Sentence
- It wasn't the rat-a-tat of the machine guns, nor the dull shocks of the artillery.
- Next second, teapots and sausages explode into the air, and the rat-a-tat of small-arms fire sends everyone diving for cover.
- From another direction, it's the rat-a-tat of a video game, syncopated with the clickity-click of the buttons of the controller in the hands of teenage boys.
- He began to concentrate on the rat-a-tat of the film rolling through the projector.
- That's when I heard the gunfire. A constant rat-a-tat of machine guns and the screaming of women mixed with the sounds of battle.
- ‘The man looks for a drug, finds the drug, becomes clairvoyant from it,’ says Theroux in a rat-a-tat summary of the plot.
- Next second, teapots and sausages explode into the air, and the rat-a-tat of small-arms fire sends everyone diving for cover.
- I swooped down on them, making the rat-a-tat sound of the turret guns and the thud and boom of the bombs.
- Most candidates are repelled by the rat-a-tat - tat of constant attack and counterattack that is standard fare in most competitive campaigns.
- (Soundbite of music) WAS: In the beginning, though, it was Miles the bebopper who burst on the scene, stringing rat-a-tat fusillades over furious tempos, a style he picked up from saxophonist and bandmate Charlie Parker. Unpack This: 70 CDs Of Miles Davis