Usually means: Displaying military power to intimidate.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. sabre rattling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sabre-rattling, sabre rattling: Merriam-Webster
  3. sabre-rattling, sabre-rattling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sabre rattling: Vocabulary.com
  5. sabre-rattling: Wordnik
  6. sabre-rattling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sabre-rattling: Wiktionary
  8. sabre rattling: Dictionary.com
  9. Sabre-rattling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sabre rattling: Rhymezone
  11. sabre rattling: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sabre rattling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. sabre-rattling, sabre rattling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sabre-rattling: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sabre rattling)

noun:  Alternative form of sabre-rattling [(idiomatic) A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.]

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