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rattlers

rattlers is the plural of rattler.

Meaning of rattler

Noun

rattler (plural rattlers)

  1. Anything that rattles.
  2. (US, informal) A rattlesnake.
    • You watch your step walking out there on the mesa, because in warmer season, the rattlers are up and about, and it's their turf.1989 February 5, Kay Whitlock, “Letter from Colorado”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 11
  3. A freight train or, (chiefly UK), a passenger train.
    • I'll lay you odds that this old rattler don't get into Shanghai on time.1932, Jules Furthman, Shanghai Express, spoken by Sam Salt (Eugene Pallette)
  4. (colloquial) Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
  5. (colloquial, dated) A loud, inconsiderate talker.
  6. (colloquial, dated) A stunning blow.
    • […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.1897, Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago

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Proper noun capitalized: Rattlers

Rattlers

  1. (plural) plural of Rattler

Phrases with rattlers

Questions about rattlers

What is rattlers the plural of?
Rattlers is the plural of rattler.
What part of speech is rattlers?
Rattlers is a proper noun.

Words near rattlers in the dictionary

  1. rattler-jumper
  2. rattler-jumpers
  3. rattler-jumping
  4. rattler-jumpings
  5. rattleroot
  6. rattlers
  7. rattles
  8. rattles a saber
  9. rattles a sabre
  10. rattles about
  11. rattles around

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