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English
Etymology
From rattle + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
rattler (plural rattlers)
- Anything that rattles.
- (chiefly US, informal) A rattlesnake.
- A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
- (colloquial) Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
- (colloquial, dated) A loud, inconsiderate talker.
- (colloquial, dated) A stunning blow.
1897, Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago:[…] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.
- (colloquial, dated) An impudent lie; a whopper.
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References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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