Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, thin length of hair that hangs down the nape of the neck, usually when the rest of the hair is cut short.
- adjective Shaped like or having a part shaped like a rat's tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In farriery:
- noun An excrescence on a horse's leg, growing from the pastern to the shank.
- noun A disease which causes the hair of a horse's tail to fall off; also, a horse's tail thus denuded of hair. Also
rat's-tail . - Same as
rat-tailed . - noun A fish of the genus Macrurus, as M. fabricii or M. rupestris; the onion-fish or grenadier. See cut under
Macrurus . - noun A horse which has a tail bare or nearly bared of hair.
- noun One of various plants having tail-like flower-spikes, as the common plantain and the ribwort plantain, and various grasses, including species of Rottbœllia in the United States and Ischæmum laxum (Andropogon nervosus) in Australia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
- noun The California chimæra. See
Chimæra . - noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See
Grenadier , 2. - adjective Like a rat's tail in form. See
Illust. offile .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A
towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks. - noun An
excrescence growing from thepastern to the middle of theshank of ahorse . - noun A
fish , the California chimera, Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei. - noun Any fish of the
genus Macrurus; agrenadier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail
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Examples
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There are the simple things, like the ability to pull a rat-tail file across the teeth of a chain saw just so and in a few efficient strokes sharpen it up and get back to work.
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But, sinse kittehs fink mai hair iz gratist toy eber, ai gunna get tehm tu leeve a rat-tail full-lengf.
part cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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But we all know, just a few months in the future from where these characters sit, Rex and Cody and their buddies are going to rat-a-tat-tat a bunch of Jedi, and Anakin is going to Do His Part for the Revolution by practicing infanticide on little kids with rat-tail haircuts and shaggy burlap swaddling cloths.
How the Disaffected Star Wars Fan can enjoy the Clone Wars cartoon « The Retort 2009
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Half of their team had spiky rat-tail haircuts, which was the style of the time.
Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009
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Altho it nawt occur tu me taht teh rat-tail iz akshullee MOAR tempting tu kittehs tehn just lawng loose oar braided hair!
Considerat kitteh triez to - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Half of their team had spiky rat-tail haircuts, which was the style of the time.
Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009
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[Laughs] He's hilarious, he's got, like, a long rat-tail.
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Half of their team had spiky rat-tail haircuts, which was the style of the time.
Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009
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Half of their team had spiky rat-tail haircuts, which was the style of the time.
Chuck Klosterman on Sports Chuck Klosterman 2009
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“Check it,” she told me, offering a rat-tail comb.
Serial Killer 2008
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