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Definition of 'RAT'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) rat
any of several long-tailed rodents of the Old World family Muridae, esp. of the genus Rattus, resembling but larger than mice.

2.  rat
any of various similar rodents of other families.

3.  rat
Slang. a scoundrel.

4.  rat
Slang.

5.  rat
a person who abandons or betrays associates.

6.  rat
an informer.

7.  rat
a scab laborer.

8.  rat
a roll of padding used to give shape or fullness to a woman's hairstyle.

9. (interj.) rat
rats, (used as an exclamation of disgust or disappointment.)

10. (v.i.) rat
Slang.

11.  rat
to inform on one's associates; squeal.

12.  rat
to work as a scab.

13.  rat
to hunt or catch rats.

14. (v.t.) rat
to dress (hair) with a rat or by teasing.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME rat(t)e, OE ræt)

Definition of 'RAT'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) rat
any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse

2. (noun) scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat
someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

3. (noun) rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

4. (noun) informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber
one who reveals confidential information in return for money

5. (verb) rat
a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure

6. (verb) rat
desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage

7. (verb) rat
employ scabs or strike breakers in

8. (verb) fink, scab, rat, blackleg
take the place of work of someone on strike

9. (verb) rat
give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat

10. (verb) rat
catch rats, especially with dogs

11. (verb) denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag
give away information about somebody
"He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

Definition of 'RAT'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) rat
a long-tailed rodent
rat poison

2. rat
a dishonest or disloyal person
***You lying rat!

Definition of 'RAT'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) RAT
one of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World

2. (noun) RAT
a round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair

3. (noun) RAT
one who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union

4. (verb) RAT
in English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union

5. (verb) RAT
to catch or kill rats

Translation of 'RAT'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a small animal with a long tail, like a mouse but larger The rats have eaten holes in those bags of flour.
Afrikaans: rot	Arabic: فأْر	Bulgarian: плъх
Brazilian: rato	Czech: krysa	German: die Ratte
Danish: rotte	Greek: αρουραίος	Spanish: rata
Estonian: rott	Farsi: موش صحرایی	Finnish: rotta
French: rat	Hebrew: חוְּלְדָה, עַכבּרוֹש	Hindi: चूहा
Croatian: štakor	Hungarian: patkány	Indonesian: tikus wirok
Icelandic: rotta	Italian: ratto	Japanese: ねずみ
Korean: 쥐	Lithuanian: žiurkė	Latvian: žurka
Malay: tikus	Dutch: rat	Norwegian: rotte
Polish: szczur	Persian: موش صحرایی	Pashto: خاڼى، سارايى موږك، دنيمى
Portuguese: ratazana	Romanian: şobolan	Russian: крыса
Slovak: krysa, potkan	Slovenian: podgana	Serbian: pacov
Swedish: råtta	Thai: หนู	Turkish: sıçan
Taiwanese: 大老鼠	Ukrainian: пацюк, щур	Urdu: چوہا
Vietnamese: chuột	Chinese: 大老鼠
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