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Rattail

//ˈɹæt.teɪl// noun, slang

Noun

1
Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.
"In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion."
2
deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail wordnet
3
A fish, a California chimera (Hydrolagus colliei, syn. Chimaera colliei).
4
A hairstyle characterized by a long lock of tail-like hair dangling from the back of the head; the dangling lock itself.
"All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift")."
5
A type of file (cutting tool) with a round cross section and usually also a taper toward the distal end.

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6
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. slang
7
An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
8
The flowering plant Stachytarpheta cayennensis.

From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.

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