Usually means: Make soft, fluttering sounds quickly.
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  1. rustle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rustle: Merriam-Webster
  3. rustle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rustle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rustle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rustle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rustle, rustle: Wordnik
  8. rustle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rustle: Wiktionary
  10. rustle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rustle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rustle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rustle, rustle: Dictionary.com
  14. rustle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rustle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rustle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rustle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rustle: Rhymezone
  19. rustle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rustle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rustle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. rustle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rustle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rustle: Encyclopedia

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  1. rustle: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rustle, rustle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See rustled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of dry leaves.
noun:  A movement producing such a sound.
verb:  (ergative) To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
verb:  (transitive) To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
verb:  (transitive) To steal (cattle or other livestock).

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