Usually means: Objects that produce sound when shaken.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. rattles: Merriam-Webster
  2. rattles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rattles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rattles, rattles: Wordnik
  5. rattles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rattles: Wiktionary
  7. rattles: Dictionary.com
  8. rattles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Rattles, The Rattles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. rattles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rattles: Legal dictionary

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  1. rattles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rattles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rattles: Medical dictionary

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  1. rattles: Idioms

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  1. Rattles: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rattle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rattle)

verb:  (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
verb:  To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
verb:  To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
verb:  (UK, slang) To experience withdrawal from drugs.
noun:  Object that rattles.
noun:  Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.
noun:  A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
noun:  (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
noun:  A device which produces a loud rattling sound, especially one having a ratchet mechanism and spun round on a handle.
noun:  (zoology) The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound.
noun:  Rattling sound.
noun:  (onomatopoeia) A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
noun:  (now rare) Noisy, rapid talk; babble.
noun:  (uncountable, now rare) Trivial chatter; gossip.
noun:  A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
noun:  (obsolete) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
noun:  A rough noise produced in the throat by air passing through obstructed airways; croup; a death rattle.
noun:  (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg). [(historical units of measure) A former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg).]
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