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"ref": "2013 September 24, Elspeth Reeve, Brian Moylan, “Miley Cyrus's Tongue: A Debate”, in The Atlantic",
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"A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear."
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"musical instrument",
"musical instrument"
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"word": "full ratchet"
}
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],
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"Ellipsis of full ratchet."
],
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"finance",
"finance#Noun"
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"full ratchet",
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"(finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet."
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"business",
"finance"
]
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"ipa": "/ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æt͡ʃɪt"
},
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"US"
],
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}
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"archaic"
],
"word": "rachet"
}
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cadell"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trinquet"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pal"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"word": "räikkä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rochet"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sperrklinke"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ra'ashan",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"word": "רַעֲשָׂן"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"word": "nottolino"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"word": "cricchetto"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "zâmen-e čarx-dande",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"word": "ضامن چرخ دنده"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "spärrhake"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gesperre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl",
"word": "ruota a cricchetto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl",
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},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"word": "چرخ ضامندار"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mechanizm zębatkowo-zapadkowy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xrapovík",
"sense": "mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "храпови́к"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "matraca"
}
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"ratchet"
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"word": "ratcheting toadlet"
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"word": "ratchet up"
}
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"text": "It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.",
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"To cause to become incremented or decremented."
],
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],
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"transitive"
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"(intransitive) To increment or decrement."
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "transitive",
"word": "munire di arpionismo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intransitive",
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}
],
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"form": "more ratchet",
"tags": [
"comparative"
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"ref": "2013 September 24, Elspeth Reeve, Brian Moylan, “Miley Cyrus's Tongue: A Debate”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "The one thing that always accompanies Miley's ratchet look (along with the gang signs) is the tongue, which is sort of like saying this persona that she has adopted is some sort of gonzo idiot who can't keep its tongue in her head.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2016 April 19, Julee Wilson, “Rihanna's Latest Sock Collection is Exactly What You'd Expect...and More”, in Essence",
"text": "The feminine-meets-fiesty creations are right on par with all the reasons we love the rightgeously ratchet “Work” singer — and she knows it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 March 28, Todrick Hall (lyrics and music), “T.H.U.G. (Trade)”, in Forbidden, track 14",
"text": "Classy in the streets but we ratchet",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 3, KWILLS, soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous."
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