Usually means: Displaying military power to intimidate.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word saber rattling:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. saber-rattling, saber rattling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. saber-rattling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saber rattling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. saber-rattling, saber-rattling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. saber rattling: Vocabulary.com
  6. saber-rattling: Wordnik
  7. saber-rattling, saber rattling: Wiktionary
  8. saber rattling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. saber-rattling: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. saber-rattling, saber rattling: Dictionary.com
  11. Saber rattling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. saber rattling: Rhymezone
  13. saber rattling: Free Dictionary
  14. saber rattling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Saber-rattling, saber rattling: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Saber-rattling: Idioms
  2. saber rattling: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. saber-rattling: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (saber rattling)

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

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