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rat-tail

noun

  1. another name for grenadier
    1. a horse's tail that has no hairs
    2. a horse having such a tail
  2. a style of spoon in which the line of the handle is prolonged in a tapering moulding along the back of the bowl
  3. a kind of woodworking or metalworking file
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The first boy I love has a rat-tail.

The first boy I love has a rat-tail.

Black girls were arrested for having “rat-tail combs,” which have long, sharp handles for braiding hair.

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Moses has a rat-tail, strung-out eyes and a tattoo on his cheek that might as well read “bad news”; Milla, instantly smitten, brings him home to dinner.

"About two or three months later I went into the agency, " he continued, "and I had this '80s rat-tail, and they started laughing at me when I said, 'This guy told me to come in, he said I could be a fashion model.'"

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