Noun : a sharp rat-a-tat on the window. From Dictionary.com.
"Lemme tell ya," she says in that Queens rat-a-tat. From Wordnik.com. [Ferraro Is Back--And Looking For A Miracle] Reference
Using a wig, the cigar, the rat-a-tat line delivery. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Alphabet of Cool – J | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
American voters are tired of the rat-a-tat of politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2004] Reference
What causes that ‘rat-a-tat’ noise on your PC speakers?. From Wordnik.com. [What causes that ‘rat-a-tat’ noise on your PC speakers? | Sync Blog] Reference
That was a rat-a-tat, angry exchange between Cameron and Brown. From Wordnik.com. [PMQs live blog] Reference
I awoke the next morning to a soft rat-a-tat on the front door. From Wordnik.com. [Full Frontal Nudity] Reference
My fingers recommenced their manic rat-a-tat drumming on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference
"It's all that goddamned rat-a-tat jazz, with tiny word balloons ...". From Wordnik.com. [When Photoshop Is Used For Evil] Reference
More explosions and the rat-a-tat of machine guns erupted around them. From Wordnik.com. [Liberated] Reference
I tap dance until we're both exhausted from my rat-a-tat conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Siegal: Bonjour, Cannes!] Reference
We were fed sloppy synopses and cartoonish characters at rat-a-tat pace. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference
His delivery manages to be both distracted and pithy rather than rat-a-tat. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Morgan: Silent Snow, Savage Snow: Nightfall] Reference
Melveen, his eldest daughter, blew her nose, a rat-a-tat that turned heads. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
Rewrite a bit of dialogue in “rat-a-tat” fashion-short, sharp exchanges?. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Donald Maass Experience] Reference
In his class, Radun serves up a rat-a-tat, in-your-face lesson about the attacks. From Wordnik.com. [As Sept. 11 anniversary nears, learning lesson on tolerance at Centreville High] Reference
McCain's halting rat-a-tat voice pattern hinders the effectiveness of his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Davis: Three Speeches, Three Fates: Grumpy, Doc and Happy] Reference
His timing is impeccable, his bullet-like rat-a-tat speech keeping the cadenza coming. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Miller: David Remnick Interviews Jon Stewart: The Truth, With Sodomy Jokes] Reference
He had a rat-a-tat style that was perfectly married to the rhythm of the game he called. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2002] Reference
Even while he spoke there came a rat-a-tat at the front door, and Mary had to hurry off. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
"Really, you guys, " Yuki said, her words going her usual rat-a-tat, sixty-five miles an hour. From Wordnik.com. [The 5th Horseman]
The Napoleon-size Sarkozy jerks his arms and shoulders and head to punctuate his rat-a-tat spiels. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for Sarko] Reference
Home Sync Blog How-To Computers & Software What causes that ‘rat-a-tat’ noise on your PC speakers?. From Wordnik.com. [What causes that ‘rat-a-tat’ noise on your PC speakers? | Sync Blog] Reference
Ever wondered why we hear that "rat-a-tat" noise through your computer speakers when a cell phone is nearby?. From Wordnik.com. [What causes that ‘rat-a-tat’ noise on your PC speakers? | Sync Blog] Reference
Below its surface of rat-a-tat cricket, the IPL is really one large flexion of the muscle of corporate India. From Wordnik.com. [India’s Next Big Thing] Reference
Ever wondered why we hear that “rat-a-tat” noise through your computer speakers when a cell phone is nearby?. From Wordnik.com. [What causes that ‘rat-a-tat’ noise on your PC speakers? | Sync Blog] Reference
The loud whistle of the appliance's blower was soon punctuated by the rat-a-tat salvoes of exploding corn kernels. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
This big-business satire is a postmodern pastiche of the Capra, Hawks and Sturges rat-a-tat social comedies of the '30s and' 40s. From Wordnik.com. [A Blast Of Hollywood Bile] Reference
The verse went on, building to a glorious burst of sound, guitar bright and dirty at the same time, the fierce rat-a-tat of the drums. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
" Then he walked away, his hooves beating a slow rat-a-tat on the floorboards, pausing to call over his presumed shoulder, "Puny homer. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
Even Carville's promotional rat-a-tat about the movie he's involved with — a remake of "All the King's Men" — is revealing in a way. From Wordnik.com. [Test-Marketing Hillary] Reference
The following morning they heard a rat-a-tat on the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations] Reference
A little while after they heard a rat-a-tat at the garden door. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations] Reference
Then they heard a rat-a-tat, and the voice of their mother calling. From Wordnik.com. [Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations] Reference
During the morning radio show, the rat-a-tat sometimes resembled a schoolyard brawl. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
The Cardinals 'fourth-inning rat-a-tat opened with right fielder Jon Jay's double and. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
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