"rattle off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-rattle off.ogg Forms: rattles off [present, singular, third-person], rattling off [participle, present], rattled off [participle, past], rattled off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rattle off (third-person singular simple present rattles off, present participle rattling off, simple past and past participle rattled off)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (list or recite quickly): ladella (Finnish), luetella (Finnish), énumérer rapidement (French), débiter rapidement (French), herunterrattern (German), ramse opp (Norwegian), отбараба́нивать (otbarabánivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отбараба́нить (otbarabánitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), decir de carrerilla (Spanish), recitar de carrerilla (Spanish), enumerar de carrerilla (Spanish), citar de carrerilla (Spanish), declamar de carrerilla (Spanish), rabbla upp (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-rattle_off-en-verb-mnwxCanW Disambiguation of 'list or recite quickly': 98 2
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To rail at; to scold. Tags: obsolete, transitive Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-rattle_off-en-verb-UHhEzrIh Disambiguation of Talking: 38 62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "off", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "off": 22 78 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 25 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: reel off, trot out, rhyme off [Canadian]

Inflected forms

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          "text": "When he was 14, he could name all the Bond girls. Can he still? / He rattles off the names, from Honey Ryder to Pussy Galore to Domino to Kissy Suzuki. He said he toyed with the idea of playing James Bond and had a conversation about it at one point, but he asked if it could be a black-and-white period piece set in the ’50s.",
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          "word": "decir de carrerilla"
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        "To rail at; to scold."
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "ladella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "luetella"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "énumérer rapidement"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "débiter rapidement"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "herunterrattern"
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      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "ramse opp"
    },
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      "roman": "otbarabánivatʹ",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
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      "word": "отбараба́нивать"
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      "roman": "otbarabánitʹ",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "отбараба́нить"
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      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "decir de carrerilla"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "recitar de carrerilla"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "enumerar de carrerilla"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "citar de carrerilla"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "declamar de carrerilla"
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      "sense": "list or recite quickly",
      "word": "rabbla upp"
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