See also: Rattler

English

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Etymology

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From rattle +‎ -er.

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Noun

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rattler (plural rattlers)

  1. Anything that rattles.
  2. (chiefly US, informal) A rattlesnake.
  3. A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
  4. (colloquial) Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
  5. (colloquial, dated) A loud, inconsiderate talker.
  6. (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.
  7. (colloquial, dated) An impudent lie; a whopper.

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References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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