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saber rattle

saber rattle is the alternative form of sabre-rattle.

Meaning of sabre-rattle

Verb

sabre-rattle (third-person singular simple present sabre-rattles, present participle sabre-rattling, simple past and past participle sabre-rattled)

  1. To threaten a big battle or war.
    • Then you speak of "the President's spread-eagle patriotism," his delight in "barnyard language," his "readiness to sabre-rattle at the ripple of a flag,"1969, Lawrence Edmund Spivak, Meet the Press: America's Press Conference of the Air

Forms of saber rattle

third-person singular presentsaber rattles
present participlesaber rattling
past participlesaber rattled
pastsaber rattled

Questions about saber rattle

What is saber rattle the alternative form of?
Saber rattle is the alternative form of sabre-rattle.

Words near saber rattle in the dictionary

  1. Sabels
  2. sabeluzole
  3. saber
  4. saber leg
  5. saber legs
  6. saber rattle
  7. saber rattled
  8. saber rattles
  9. saber rattling
  10. saber rattlings
  11. saber saw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saber rattle (page history and authors); sabre-rattle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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