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The answer PATTER has 79 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of patter in various dictionaries:
noun - plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
noun - a quick succession of light rapid sounds
verb - rain gently
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the sound of a lot of things gently and repeatedly hitting a surface: |
continuous and sometimes funny speech or talk, especially used by someone trying to sell things or by an entertainer: |
the sound of quick, light hits or steps: |
To move with quick, light, softly audible steps. |
Meaningless talk chatter. |
Glib rapid speech, as of an auctioneer, salesperson, or comedian. |
The jargon of a particular group cant. |
To utter in a glib, rapid, or mechanical manner. |
To mumble prayers in a mechanical manner. |
To speak or chatter glibly and rapidly. |
Patter description |
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Patter is a prepared and practiced speech that is designed to produce a desired response from its audience. Examples of occupations with a patter might include the auctioneer, salesperson, dance caller, magician, or comedian. * The term may have been a colloquial shortening of "Pater Noster", and may have referred to the practice of mouthing or mumbling prayers quickly and mechanically. * From this, it became a slang word for the secret and equally incomprehensible mutterings of a cant language used by beggars, thieves, gypsies, etc., and then the fluent plausible talk that a cheap-jack employs to pass off his goods. Many illusionists, e.g., card magicians, use patter both to enhance the show and to distract the attention of the spectators. * It is thus also used of any rapid manner of talking, and of a patter-song, in which a very large number of words have to be sung at high speed to fit the music. A western square dance caller may interpolate patterin the form of metrical lines, often of |
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