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• n  a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)

• The nonstop rat-a-tat of millions of gambling chips tossed on blackjack and baccarat tables in its cavernous casinos, the constant thumping from the construction of five-star .
• He responded with a rat-a-tat of ideas and expletives, a joyousness unknown to Dems in recent years.
• The rat-a-tat sound of machine gunfire resolves into a pulsing electronic rock beat.

• rat-a-tat-tat
• rat-tat

News & Articles

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• Sandra Bullock Unleashes the F-Bomb on The Tonight Show—Watch Now!
  Sandy, oh, Sandy: our ears! The Heat star Sandra Bullock hopped on over to The Tonight Show to promote her new buddy-cop film with Melissa McCarthy, and, in a rat-a-tat chat with host...
  June 27, 2013 - E! Online

Quotes

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• Dennis Miller in South Bend Tribune (subscription)
  I wanted to be friendly with these people,Miller says. "So that's the vibe I'm going for. It doesn't have to be rat-a-tat-tat. It doesn't have to be killer funny. But I like to put the little zingers in and to be nice."
• Mario Cuomo in Bloomberg
  He will be especially useful at taking a senator with a penchant for nuanced language -- that includes an occasional sentence with three commas -- and come closer to the rat-a-tat- tat communication that works,says Mario Cuomo, 72, the...