Definitionen
1.NounA pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2.NounA mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
3.NounA ratchet wrench.
4.NounA procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
5.NounA mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
6.NounA noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
7.NounEllipsis of full ratchet.
8.VerbTo increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa."This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps."
9.VerbTo cause (something) to become incremented or decremented."Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?; It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here."
10.AdjectiveGhetto; unseemly, indecorous.
11.NounA person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.