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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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In the rat-tat-tat of nightly machine-gun fire, people are beginning to hear the government's death knell.
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.
I would be absorbed in the study of maps and geographies when a thundering rat-tat-tat would make me start from my seat, and, lo!
In-depth analysis gets mowed down by the rat-tat-tat of one-liners.
At other times, the rat-tat-tat rhythm gave way to awkwardly long lags.

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