rat-a-tat-tat

Onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -æt

rat-a-tat-tat (plural rat-a-tat-tats)

1. A series of short, sharp taps, especially made by knocking on a door, beating a drum, or firing an automatic weapon.
   • 2023 April 14, Rosyln Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times‎:

     A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.

rat-a-tat-tat

1. A series of short, sharp taps, especially made by knocking on a door, beating a drum, or firing an automatic weapon.