ratchet
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Synonyms: hatchet, latchet, bratchet, matchet, watchet, rachet, ratchel, rotchet, ratched, datchet
Antonyms: hatchet, latchet, bratchet, matchet, watchet, rachet, ratchel, rotchet, ratched, datchet
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Noun
- A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- A ratchet wrench.
- A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
- A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
- Ellipsis of full ratchet.
Verb
- To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
- This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.
- To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.
- Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?
- It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.
Adjective
- Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.
Noun
- A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
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