Usually means: Old, noisy, unreliable vehicle or machinery.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word rattletrap:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. rattletrap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rattletrap: Merriam-Webster
  3. rattletrap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rattletrap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rattletrap: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Rattletrap, rattletrap: Wordnik
  7. rattletrap: Wiktionary
  8. rattletrap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rattletrap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. rattletrap: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Rattletrap, rattletrap: Dictionary.com
  12. Rattletrap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Rattletrap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. rattletrap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Rattletrap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. rattletrap: FreeDictionary.org
  17. rattletrap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. rattletrap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rattletrap, rattletrap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (rattletrap)

adjective:  Mechanically unreliable or in disrepair.
noun:  (informal) A mechanical device, particularly an automobile, that is worn out, run down, or mechanically unreliable as indicated by noises it makes in operation.
noun:  (dated) Any piece of miscellaneous equipment or junk.
noun:  A type of noisemaker in which the teeth of a gear repeatedly bend and release a stiff tongue.
noun:  (dated, slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.

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