Meaning of Rattler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anything that rattles.
2. A surname.
3. A rattlesnake.
   US, informal
4. A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
5. Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
   colloquial
6. A loud, inconsiderate talker.
   colloquial, dated
7. A stunning blow.
   colloquial, dated
8. An impudent lie; a whopper.
   colloquial, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.”

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