Usually means: Displaying military power to intimidate.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word sabre rattling:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sabre-rattling, sabre rattling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sabre-rattling, sabre-rattling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sabre rattling: Vocabulary.com
  4. sabre-rattling: Wordnik
  5. sabre-rattling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sabre-rattling: Wiktionary
  7. sabre rattling: Dictionary.com
  8. Sabre-rattling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. sabre rattling: Rhymezone
  10. sabre rattling: Free Dictionary
  11. sabre rattling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. sabre-rattling, sabre rattling: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  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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