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  • noun Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
  • noun A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head.

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Examples

  • As for the Fakahatchee, it has ten species of orchids that exist nowhere else in the United States: the crooked-spur, the false water spider, the rattail, to name a few.

    Pam Grout: Sarah Palin, Jane Fonda and Those Suffering From Orchidelirium Were Here Pam Grout 2010

  • Sara's the quirky one with the nose ring and rattail - there's always one like her every season.

    Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: America's Next Top Model, Cycle 16 Premiere Holly Cara Price 2011

  • There are beautiful branching deep-sea corals in yellow, brown and white, also deep sponges, cutthroat eels, rattail fish, red crabs, luminescent purple shimmering squid and other life abundant amidst the marine snow, organic detritus falling from above.

    David Helvarg: 9/11 From 200 miles Out at Sea David Helvarg 2011

  • There are beautiful branching deep-sea corals in yellow, brown and white, also deep sponges, cutthroat eels, rattail fish, red crabs, luminescent purple shimmering squid and other life abundant amidst the marine snow, organic detritus falling from above.

    David Helvarg: 9/11 From 200 miles Out at Sea David Helvarg 2011

  • (I have, however, seen major damage done in gym by rattail towels.)

    Putting the Wolf on Trial 2008

  • “The hope is to keep the incredible carcass, heat resistance, and consistency characteristics of our Beefmaster and breed an animal that consistently produces prime grade meat with healthy fat,” says Mr. McAllen Jr., steering around rattail cacti.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • The guy, I say, is probably at home every night with a little rattail file, filing a cross into the tip of every one of his rounds.

    Archive 2009-03-01 The Verger 2009

  • The guy, I say, is probably at home every night with a little rattail file, filing a cross into the tip of every one of his rounds.

    blogging in English The Verger 2009

  • Christopher Kelley, program biologist for the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, went to the natural energy lab Tuesday to pick up the preserved octosquid, rattail fish and jellyfish (also found in the filter), which had been stored in a freezer, and brought them back to UH-Manoa's oceanography department.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • I respect any culture that has the balls to move “the rattail” up six inches.

    TRAILER FOR CHANDNI CHAWK TO CHINA, THE INDIAN BOLLYWOOD KUNG FU MOVIE 2008

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