rattail (English, noun)
expansion: rattail (plural rattails)
Senses:
glosses: Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
glosses: A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
glosses: A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
glosses: A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.
glosses: A towel that has been tightly twisted along the diagonal to make a rudimentary whip with a towel corner at the tip, typically used in juvenile pranks.
tags: slang
glosses: An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
glosses: The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.
Forms:
form: rattails
tags: plural
form: rat-tail
tags: alternative