How to pronounce “ratchet”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
• A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
• A ratchet wrench.
• (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
• (cryptography) A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
• A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
• (finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
• (transitive) To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.
• [Adjective]
• (US, slang, derogatory) Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

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