Meaning of Ratchet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2. A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
   US, derogatory, slang
3. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
4. A ratchet wrench.
5. A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
   broadly
6. A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
7. A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
8. Ellipsis of full ratchet.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn⟳ clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.”

“Ahead of them a group of mandibulous sales men had set⟳ up their combustion cups and incendiary ratchets to demonstrate⟳ their wares to whatever officers might come⟳ by.”

“I love⟳ it when jaboons let⟳ their jibbering get⟳ them in 5 times as much trouble⟳ as they're already in. Let's see⟳ if this ratchet can keep⟳ her dick trap⟳ shut⟳ in court.”

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