English
Etymology
From rattle + trap
Pronunciation
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Adjective
rattletrap
#Mechanically unreliable or in disrepair.
::All services for the biggest embassy in the world will operate independently from the rattletrap utilities of the Iraqi capital. (speaking of the new US Embassy in Baghdad- 1)
Quotations
2000 "Every cultural instinct and previous experience tells you that when you travel this far you should find, at the very least, people on camels. There should be unrecognizable lettering on the signs, and swarthy men in robes drinking coffee from thimble-sized cups and puffing on hookahs, and rattletrap buses and potholes in the road and a real possibilty of disease on everything you touch—but no, it's not like that at all." — Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country, p. 10
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