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Knocking noise
Answer for the clue "Knocking noise ", 9 letters:
rat-a-tat
Alternative clues for the word rat-a-tat
Word definitions for rat-a-tat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, echoic, originally of a cooper hammering tubs.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door) [syn: rat-a-tat-tat , rat-tat ]
Usage examples of rat-a-tat.
Whatever it was that he had added to the band continued to augment all the music for all the subsequent acts, with jingles, rat-a-tats, hollow clunks, brassy clashes and strange, unearthly shimmers of sound.
The rat-a-tat of attack ads, the charges and counter-charges, the petulant press conferences, the opposition research e-mails and snarling spin doctors all reduce politics to a Hobbesian jungle.