Usually means: Thin, tapered hairstyle or appendage.
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  1. rattail: Merriam-Webster
  2. rattail: Vocabulary.com
  3. rattail: Wiktionary
  4. rattail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. rattail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. rattail: Dictionary.com
  7. Rattail (haircut), Rattail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. rattail: Rhymezone
  9. rattail: FreeDictionary.org
  10. rattail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. rattail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. rattail: Encyclopedia

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  1. rattail: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rattail)

noun:  Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
noun:  A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
noun:  A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
noun:  A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.
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 the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
noun:  The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.

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