Rat-a-___ (drum sound)

The answer

TAT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAT answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TAT

Every other clue in this collection answered by TAT, most used first.

• Make lace - used 259 times, most recently in 2026
• Tit for ___ - used 189 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of ink - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Body art, for short - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a shuttle - used 53 times, most recently in 2018
• Skin art, for short - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Sylvester, to Tweety - used 44 times, most recently in 2024
• Bit of body art - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of body art, for short - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Rat-a-___ - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Skin pic - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Gunny cloth. - used 15 times, most recently in 1968
• "I tawt I taw a puddy ___" - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• Bit of body art, informally - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Create lace - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
• Body art, briefly - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Do lacework - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Ink - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Bit of body ink - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Feline, to Tweety - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Make doilies - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Pic on a pec - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Work with a shuttle - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Bit of body art, slangily - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Make edging - used 10 times, most recently in 1973
• Part of an exchange - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Bit of body art, briefly - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Machine gun syllable - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Pic from a parlor - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Piece of body art, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Work on a doily - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
• Art on an arm, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Bit of ink, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Body image, briefly - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Body pic - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Make a doily - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Pec pic - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Work on lace - used 8 times, most recently in 1978
• Body art, informally - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Ink spot? - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• What Tweety tawt he taw - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Arm art, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Pec pic, perhaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Skin art, slangily - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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• Sound booster - AMP, used 84 times
• Pigeon sound - COO, used 82 times

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