Usually means: Drumming sound resembling a gallop.
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  8. rataplan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rataplan)

noun:  A continuous, even drumming or rapping, as of the hooves of a galloping horse, or machine-gun fire.
verb:  To drum repeatedly.

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