"rat-tail" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-rat-tail.ogg [Australia] Forms: rat-tails [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} rat-tail (plural rat-tails)
  1. (slang) A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-rat-tail-en-noun-wiHDrjuC
  2. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
    Sense id: en-rat-tail-en-noun-sEfvozJ6
  3. A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei). Categories (lifeform): Chimaeras (fish)
    Sense id: en-rat-tail-en-noun-BjCE0lDC Disambiguation of Chimaeras (fish): 1 1 43 51 3
  4. Any fish of the genus Macrourus; a grenadier. Categories (lifeform): Chimaeras (fish), Gadiforms
    Sense id: en-rat-tail-en-noun-Li~8ptPi Disambiguation of Chimaeras (fish): 1 1 43 51 3 Disambiguation of Gadiforms: 1 1 40 54 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 6 25 36 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 5 12 55 20 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 9 5 12 62 11
  5. Alternative form of rattail (“type of hairstyle”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: rattail (extra: type of hairstyle)
    Sense id: en-rat-tail-en-noun-AqGm9kcg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: rat-tail file, rat-tail radish

Inflected forms

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