Definition of "rat-tail" [rat•-tail]

• See grenadier. (noun)
• Shaped like or having a part shaped like a rat's tail: a rat-tail file; a rattail comb. (adjective)

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• "[Laughs] He's hilarious, he's got, like, a long rat-tail."
• "But we all know, just a few months in the future from where these characters sit, Rex and Cody and their buddies are going to rat-a-tat-tat a bunch of Jedi, and Anakin is going to Do His Part for the Revolution by practicing infanticide on little kids with rat-tail haircuts and shaggy burlap swaddling cloths."
• "Half of their team had spiky rat-tail haircuts, which was the style of the time."