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US
/ˈɹæt/
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[ UK /ɹˈæt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈæt/ ]
VERB
- take the place of work of someone on strike
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- catch rats, especially with dogs
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give away information about somebody
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam - desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
NOUN
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
- one who reveals confidential information in return for money
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a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
kill the rat
only a rotter would do that
the British call a contemptible person a `git'
you cowardly little pukes!
throw the bum out
How To Use rat In A Sentence
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment. Real Estate
- People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted. Obama Policies on Transparency, Openness, and Participation - and NASA - NASA Watch
- Twenty microliters of each antibody was added to 100 L of blood, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 15 minutes.
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
