rat-tail

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Noun[edit]

rat-tail (plural rat-tails)

  1. (slang) A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
  2. An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.[1]
  3. A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
  4. Any fish of the genus Macrourus; a grenadier.
  5. Alternative form of rattail (“type of hairstyle”)

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “rat-tail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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