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- noun Alternative spelling of
death rattle .
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Examples
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Maybe his mind was blown, but my is still sufficiently intact, albiet disappointed in yet another example of why people are worried SF is in a death-rattle.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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With dark night coming on, and the death-rattle in her throat, she raised herself weakly and pointed a shaking finger at the accused, thus, and she said, 'Him, him, him.
CHAPTER 28 2010
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As whites drift nearer and nearer to majority-minority status, and the loss of their long-cherished political hegemony looms bleakly, the strangest noises and eruptions can be heard from them -- like a collective death-rattle.
Kara Vallow: Taking on Big Whitey Kara Vallow 2010
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As whites drift nearer and nearer to majority-minority status, and the loss of their long-cherished political hegemony looms bleakly, the strangest noises and eruptions can be heard from them -- like a collective death-rattle.
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As whites drift nearer and nearer to majority-minority status, and the loss of their long-cherished political hegemony looms bleakly, the strangest noises and eruptions can be heard from them -- like a collective death-rattle.
Kara Vallow: Taking on Big Whitey Kara Vallow 2010
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Lansley may take all that as the death-rattle of the vested interests.
NHS reforms: Is Andrew Lansley's brutal surgery really needed? 2010
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Cut to a few weeks ago when Emma's laptop stuck its legs in the air and started making death-rattle noises.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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This complex dual inheritance took him to Harvard to study French literature and then, because he has a horror of boredom, to New York in the city's death-rattle years during the 1970s.
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Cut to a few weeks ago when Emma's laptop stuck its legs in the air and started making death-rattle noises.
Ubuntu 2010
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When the obituary for American journalism is eventually written, a milestone in the journey to its death-rattle will surely be the column that the New York Times 'ombudsman, Clark Hoyt, wrote on Sunday.
bilby commented on the word death-rattle
"We know it's nice playing tin soldiers with real men, talking strategy and joking in parliament about the torture of Vietnamese women (what would you like to do when they death-rattle and their cunts are tight with terror and hate, eh? Jiggle jiggle?), but your pleasures are incompatible."
- 'Dear John', Germaine Greer, circa 1969.
March 28, 2008