All 4 Uses of
rant
in
Catch-22
- Late one night, Havermeyer fired a shot at a mouse that brought Hungry Joe bolting out at him barefoot, ranting at the top of his screechy voice and emptying his own .†
Chpt 3
- He was a short-legged, wide-shouldered, smiling young soul who whistled bouncy show tunes continuously and turned over cards with sharp snaps when he dealt at blackjack or poker until Hungry Joe disintegrated into quaking despair finally beneath their cumulative impact and began ranting at him to stop snapping the cards.†
Chpt 7
- Yossarian muttered an unconscious prayer of thankfulness and then flared up at Orr savagely in a ranting fusion of resentment and relief.†
Chpt 15 *
- Mobs of sick and injured men began ranting incoherently and running and jumping in the aisle as though the building were on fire.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(rant) to complain or verbally attack in an excited rather than thoughtful way