"rat-tat-tat" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rat-tat-tat !",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "rat-tat-tat!"
      },
      "expansion": "rat-tat-tat!",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The sound made by knocking on a door with a hard object (such as a door knocker)."
      ],
      "id": "en-rat-tat-tat-en-intj-JeqAdxCv",
      "links": [
        [
          "door knocker",
          "door knocker"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 92 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sound made by firing an automatic machine gun."
      ],
      "id": "en-rat-tat-tat-en-intj-42D7pfd2",
      "links": [
        [
          "machine gun",
          "machine gun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rat-tat-tat"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rat-tat-tats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rat-tat-tat (plural rat-tat-tats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 30, Foster Klug, “South Koreans want their own nukes. That could roil one of the world’s most dangerous regions”, in Associated Press",
          "text": "To the steady rat-tat-tat of machine guns and exploding bursts of smoke, amphibious tanks slice across a lake not far from the big green mountains that stand along the world’s most heavily armed border.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Such a sound."
      ],
      "id": "en-rat-tat-tat-en-noun-OGjtzb7r",
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
          "word": "kop kop"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
          "word": "toc! toc! toc!"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
          "word": "kopp-kopp"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
          "word": "kipp-kopp"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tuk-túk",
          "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
          "word": "тук-ту́к"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tuk-tuk-túk",
          "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
          "word": "тук-тук-ту́к"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sound of an automatic machine-gun",
          "word": "rätätätä"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tra-ta-tá",
          "sense": "sound of an automatic machine-gun",
          "word": "тра-та-та́"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rat-tat-tat"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rat-tat-tat !",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "rat-tat-tat!"
      },
      "expansion": "rat-tat-tat!",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The sound made by knocking on a door with a hard object (such as a door knocker)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "door knocker",
          "door knocker"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The sound made by firing an automatic machine gun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "machine gun",
          "machine gun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rat-tat-tat"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rat-tat-tats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rat-tat-tat (plural rat-tat-tats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 30, Foster Klug, “South Koreans want their own nukes. That could roil one of the world’s most dangerous regions”, in Associated Press",
          "text": "To the steady rat-tat-tat of machine guns and exploding bursts of smoke, amphibious tanks slice across a lake not far from the big green mountains that stand along the world’s most heavily armed border.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Such a sound."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
      "word": "kop kop"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
      "word": "toc! toc! toc!"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
      "word": "kopp-kopp"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
      "word": "kipp-kopp"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tuk-túk",
      "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
      "word": "тук-ту́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tuk-tuk-túk",
      "sense": "sound made by knocking on a door",
      "word": "тук-тук-ту́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sound of an automatic machine-gun",
      "word": "rätätätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tra-ta-tá",
      "sense": "sound of an automatic machine-gun",
      "word": "тра-та-та́"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rat-tat-tat"
}