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Definition of rat-tat in English: rat-tat(also rat-a-tat, rat-tat-tat) noun ratˈtatˌræt ˈtæt A rapping sound (used especially in reference to a sequence of knocks on a door or the sound of gunfire) 叩击声，敲击声（尤指连续三两下的敲门声或枪炮声） there was a loud rat-tat on the heavy door the rat-tat of the Kalashnikovs Example sentencesExamples - He began to concentrate on the rat-a-tat of the film rolling through the projector.
- It resembles musical notation; the dots have the rat-a-tat of a man sending code.
- Drops of water the size of a baby's fist come splattering down with the rat-tat-tat of hailstones in their wake.
- ‘The man looks for a drug, finds the drug, becomes clairvoyant from it,’ says Theroux in a rat-a-tat summary of the plot.
- They sat there in complete silence, save for the consistent rat-tat-tat of Gabe's leg knocking over and over against the hard metal of the chair.
- It wasn't the rat-a-tat of the machine guns, nor the dull shocks of the artillery.
- Swing is about the dancing, the music, the spirit of lower-class youth, the rat-tat-tat of a song you just can't get out of your head.
- Most candidates are repelled by the rat-a-tat - tat of constant attack and counterattack that is standard fare in most competitive campaigns.
- The household was roused this morning by a rat-tat-tat on the door.
- The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity.
- Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind.
- Out in all weather, bringing a friendly rat-tat-tat to many an isolated cottage door, sharing a bit of news, taking a message to a doctor or priest if someone was in trouble.
- 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.
- Beneath the bubbling sixteenths an obsessive rhythm, a rat-a-tat on a repeated note with a semitone fillip on the end, adds to the feeling of desperation.
- He had a rat-a-tat style that was perfectly married to the rhythm of the game he called.
- I swooped down on them, making the rat-a-tat sound of the turret guns and the thud and boom of the bombs.
- Several species of hummingbirds flit about the blooms of the Arizona trumpet and the desert honeysuckle, while the rat-tat-tat of five different kinds of woodpeckers may be heard.
- 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.
- In-depth analysis gets mowed down by the rat-tat-tat of one-liners.
Synonyms beat, rhythm, patter, tap, chatter, pounding, thump, thumping, thud, thudding, rattle, rattling, pitter-patter, rat-a-tat, pit-a-pat, thrum, tattoo, vibration, throb, throbbing, pulsation
OriginLate 17th century: imitative. Rhymesat, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat Definition of rat-tat in US English: rat-tat |