Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic transitive English) To list or recite quickly. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To rail at; to scold.
WordNet
v. recite volubly or extravagantly; "He could recite the names of all the chemical elements" [syn: rattle down, reel off, spiel off, roll off]
Usage examples of "rattle off".
There were two boy-soldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you'd already agreed to this by coming this far, and please produce your passport.
He puffed once more and then began to rattle off the material recorded in his notes.
There were two boy-soldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you’.
Conal heard something rattle off his helmet, felt something sting his arm, and heard Robin cry out.
He'd rattle off five or six different questions and opinions, running them all together like so many unbranded cattle--it made it hard to pick out one and think about it carefully and slowly, the only ways Pea Eye liked to think.
They required the services of a blacksmith, not only to repair the broken wheel but also to reset the three other iron tires lest they grow loose and rattle off.
When Grethet suspected him of possessing a few moments of idle time, she would rattle off lists of occupations with which he might amuse himself.
At a hamlet where the road forked, an old woman, who according to her testimony never could sleep well at night because of the particular ache in her hip that made lying down an agony, had heard a troop of horsemen turn down the northwest fork and rattle off in the twilight hours before dawn.
The Scoreboard thus allowed the colonel to keep track of the battalions and companies under his command and, quickly and crisply, to rattle off impressive figures to visiting dignitaries.
Drugs that would make a priest rattle off penitents' confessions like a stenographer's recording machine.
There were two boy-soldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you’d already agreed to this by coming this far, and please produce your passport.
There were two boysoldiers there, one to work the sampler and one to rattle off the line about how you?
We'll let the dust and masonry blow and rattle off as we go along.
It continued to rattle off technical information until I told it to shut up.
And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.