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- noun Plural form of
rat-tail .
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Examples
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Some unknown hand, her own perhaps, had placed on her rat-tails a twisted white ribbon; by afternoon it had skewed itself around to the side, so that her head looked like abadly tied parcel.
Hilary Mantel Comma 2010
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He was wearing a silky white satin jogging suit and his hair ended in damp rat-tails.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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He was wearing a silky white satin jogging suit and his hair ended in damp rat-tails.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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He was wearing a silky white satin jogging suit and his hair ended in damp rat-tails.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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CIA officials were quick to point out that in Arabic culture, which enshrines youthful good looksand has created a virtual cottage industry of beard-dyeing parlors where one caneven get beard perms, rat-tails, sauna-bathsand full body-hair shaves, no self-respecting village elder or chieftain would dare be caught dead with a streak of grey hair in his beard.
Breaking News from FOXX News: Yet Another bin Laden Tape 2007
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Any trip to the local Wal-Mart will reveal the still-popular dozen or so "rat-tails" and other er, retro looks: semi-permanent frostings, still fresh football mohawks (increases helmet comfort), assorted levels of 'poofiness', etc ...
m��ll��t 2004
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The women with tow-coloured rat-tails expected to grow luxuriant black tresses and others with coarse scrubby black hair dreamed of having fine soft golden braids.
The Curly-Haired Hen Auguste Vimar
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By this time even rat-tails would be a welcome change -- and with genuine socialism there would not even be that escape.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Mullets, mohawks, side ponytails, rat-tails and perms are happily buried beside bowl cuts, but unlike other styles, I doubt anyone ever defended the bowl cut's aesthetics.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Millie Kerr 2011
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They have filmed fish called rat-tails that measure 0. 5m-long (1. 6ft), shrimp-like creatures called amphipods, which swarm in increasingly large groups the deeper you go, as well as a shoal of snail fish swimming at 7,700m (25,300ft) down in the Japan Trench - the deepest fish to be caught on camera.
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