What is "rattletrap"

Usage examples of "rattletrap".

But one summer day he steered it off the gorge road on a return trip from a wood run to Conejos Junction, was somehow thrown clear onto a ledge, and from that spectacular vantage point he watched his rattletrap do a swan dive into the Rio Grande eight hundred feet below.

Once the magazine was inefficiently hauled from town to town and drugstore to drugstore in a rattletrap pickup driven by a vague long-haired poet named Jamey Carruthers, nobody from the Voice kept track of it until Jamey Carruthers came around again a month later to collect and distribute once more.

Rolling Stones cackled sadistically at full volume on the radio, Herbie shifted into reverse, and, without looking backward, furiously popped the clutch, causing his wonderful convertible to bolt back onto the dirt road and directly into a rattletrap pickup barreling along at a high rate of speed.

Held that damned old rattletrap together with spit, prayer, and baling wire.

Phaid, who had abandoned himself totally to higher powers, realising that he could exert absolutely no control over either Bron or his rattletrap machine, was pleasantly surprised when they arrived at their destination in one piece.

It should have been a rattletrap, yet somehow it managed to evade the Ruinators.

Jon preferred the next thing to a rattletrap, and the privacy of modest means and modest living quarters.

They were using her car today, as it was more reliable and comfortable than his rattletrap van.

A fleet of rickety taxis, wheezing buses and rattletrap jalopies charged down the two-lane highway connecting Pearl Harbor and Honolulu, conveying the invading horde to their dropping-off spot: the Army and Navy YMCA, at the eastern end of Hotel Street, a suitable starting point for an evening of good-natured debauchery.

Laughing, Joe seated himself on a dead cotton-wood trunk near his beanfield, lit a cigarette, and watched the rattletraps heading down the highway toward menial fifty-cent-an-hour, maybe a dollar-an-hour, at most a dollar-sixty, a dollar-eighty-an-hour jobs in Dona Luz and Chamisaville.

Becker paid attention, the cat sprang up to his shoulder, lay against his neck and purred with a noise that rivaled that of the rustiest rattletrap engine of an outmoded junker ship.

Laughing, Joe seated himself on a dead cotton-wood trunk near his beanfield, lit a cigarette, and watched the rattletraps heading down the highway toward menial fifty-cent-an-hour, maybe a dollar-an-hour, at most a dollar-sixty, a dollar-eighty-an-hour jobs in Dona Luz and Chamisaville.

The sky was overcast, threatening rain,- when Joe Mondragon's rattletrap pickup skidded to a halt on the Strawberry Mesa Body Shop and Pipe Queen grounds and Joe hopped out and strode swiftly up the slope to where Claudio Garcia and Marvin LaBlue and Ruby Archuleta were seated on various stumps outside the house, quietly smoking.

But one summer day he steered it off the gorge road on a return trip from a wood run to Conejos Junction, was somehow thrown clear onto a ledge, and from that spectacular vantage point he watched his rattletrap do a swan dive into the Rio Grande eight hundred feet below.

But one summer day he steered it off the gorge road on a return trip from a wood run to Conejos Junction, was somehow thrown clear onto a ledge, and from that spectacular vantage point he watched his rattletrap do a swan dive into the Rio Grande eight hundred feet below.