Definitions for RATræt

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ratræt(n.; interj.; v.)rat•ted, rat•ting.

(n.)any of several long-tailed rodents of the Old World family Muridae, esp. of the genus Rattus, resembling but larger than mice.
Category: Mammals
any of various similar rodents of other families.
Category: Mammals
Slang. a scoundrel.
Category: Status (usage)
Slang. a person who abandons or betrays associates. an informer. a scab laborer.
Category: Status (usage)
a roll of padding used to give shape or fullness to a woman's hairstyle.
Category: Clothing
Slang.a person who frequents a specified place:
mall rat; gym rat.
Category: Status (usage)
(interj.)rats, (used as an exclamation of disgust or disappointment.)
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
(v.i.)Slang. to inform on one's associates; squeal. to work as a scab.
Category: Status (usage)
to hunt or catch rats.
(v.t.)to dress (hair) with a rat or by teasing.
Category: Clothing

Origin of rat:

bef. 1000; ME rat(t)e, OE ræt

rat′like`(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

rat(noun)
any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat(noun)
someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git(noun)
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'"
informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber(noun)
one who reveals confidential information in return for money
rat(verb)
a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
rat(verb)
desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
rat(verb)
employ scabs or strike breakers in
fink, scab, rat, blackleg(verb)
take the place of work of someone on strike
rat(verb)
give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
rat(verb)
catch rats, especially with dogs
denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag(verb)
give away information about somebody
"He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

rat(noun)æt
a long-tailed rodent
rat poison
ratæt
a dishonest or disloyal person
***You lying rat!

Wiktionary

rat(Noun)
Any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.
rat(Noun)
A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
rat(Noun)
A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel.
What a rat, leaving us stranded here!
rat(Noun)
An informant or snitch
rat(Noun)
A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
rat(Noun)
Scab
rat(Noun)
North West London slang term for vagina, as in get your rat out.
rat(Noun)
A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
rat(Verb)
to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
rat(Verb)
To kill rats.

Origin: From rat, rotte, from ræt, from rattaz (cf. West Frisian rôt, Dutch rat, German dialect Ratz), from Hreh₃d- (cf. Welsh rhathu ‘to grate, rasp’, rodo, rostrum ‘beak, prow’, Middle Persian ‘to scrape, smooth’, Sanskrit ‘he gnaws, cuts’).

Webster Dictionary

Rat(noun)
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
Rat(noun)
a round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair
Rat(noun)
one who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union
Rat(verb)
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
Rat(verb)
to catch or kill rats