rat-tat
- n a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)
- The Gibsons: rat-tat-tat knife-throwing around the contours of a girl posed on a revolving wheel.
- Yet Garth revels in his labors and savors his influence both during and after campaigns, just as he enjoys his own faade as the rat-tat-tat tough guy, breaking off aphorisms .
- I soon heard the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and squads of planes starting to dive-bomb the destroyers and cruisers nearest shore.