Usually means: Terminal respiratory sound indicating death.
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  1. death rattle: Merriam-Webster
  2. death rattle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. death rattle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. death rattle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. death-rattle, death rattle: Wordnik
  6. death-rattle, death rattle: Wiktionary
  7. death rattle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. death rattle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. death-rattle, death rattle: Dictionary.com
  10. Death Rattle (comics), Death Rattle, Death rattle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. death rattle: FreeDictionary.org
  12. death rattle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. death rattle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. death rattle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Death rattle: Merck Manuals
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  4. death rattle: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. death rattle: Medical dictionary

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  1. death rattle: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (death rattle)

noun:  The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying.
noun:  (cricket, by extension) The sound of a batsman’s stumps being broken, so called because this leads to the batsman’s dismissal.

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