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Word: ratatat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Fighting Falcons" (whose Captain James E. Swett destroyed seven Jap dive bombers in one fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here comes Jack Armstrong, the a-a-alll American boy. Ratatat-tat." . . . "Which way'd they go, sheriff?" . . . "Thataway, pardner." . . . "Avast, ye villain, I'll pay the mortgage, take that and that and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: The Brood of Noisy Nan | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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