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sabre-rattles

sabre-rattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about sabre-rattles

What is sabre-rattles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sabre-rattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sabre-rattle.

Words near sabre-rattles in the dictionary

  1. sabre rattlings
  2. sabre saw
  3. sabre saws
  4. sabre-rattle
  5. sabre-rattled
  6. sabre-rattles
  7. sabre-rattling
  8. sabre-rattlings
  9. sabre-tooth
  10. sabre-toothed
  11. sabre-toothed cat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sabre-rattles (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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