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What does rat-tat-tat mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rat-tat-tat? Here's what it means.

Interjection
  1. The sound made by knocking on a door with a hard object (such as a door knocker).
  2. The sound made by firing an automatic machine gun.
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Drops of water the size of a baby's fist come splattering down with the rat-tat-tat of hailstones in their wake.
The household was roused this morning by a rat-tat-tat on the door.
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.
At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth.
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.
There came from the direction of the alamo the steady rat-tat-tat of rifles.

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