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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?
- 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
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
