that threatens military action; aggressive, pugnacious; also as n. = sabre-rattling n. at sabre, n. compounds 1b.
(a) n. the threat of the military use of rockets, esp. nuclear missiles; (b) adj. threatening the military use of rockets, esp. nuclear missiles.
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