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View synonyms for rat-a-tat
rat-a-tat
[ rat-uh-tat ]
noun
- a sound of knocking or rapping:
a sharp rat-a-tat on the window.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rat-a-tat1
First recorded in 1675–85; imitative
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Example Sentences
A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style—and they tended to be funny.
From The Daily Beast
Rat-a-tat, rat′-a-tat′, n. sound of repeated knocks, as of a drumstick.
From Project Gutenberg
In the woods one seldom hears from him anything but the rattling rat-a-tat-tat, as he hammers away on a dry old pine stub.
From Project Gutenberg
Sophie lay back in her chair, eyes half closed, fingers beating a slow rat-a-tat on the chair-arm.
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A little while after they heard a rat-a-tat at the garden door.
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Then they heard a rat-a-tat, and the voice of their mother calling: 'Here!
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