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Meaning rat meaning

What does rat mean?
Definitions in simple English

rat

Rats are medium-sized rodents. They often live near people and eat garbage. Rats can carry diseases. They are also kept as pets and can be very tame. I caught the rat that was eating our food.

rat

any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage catch rats, especially with dogs give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat employ scabs or strike breakers in (= fink) take the place of work of someone on strike (= informer) one who reveals confidential information in return for money (= rotter, bum, puke, 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' (= scab) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike (= tell on, give away) give away information about somebody He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

Synonyms rat synonyms

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Topics rat topics

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Conjugation rat conjugation

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rat · verb

Examples rat examples

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Simple sentences

I asked Tom to buy some rat poison.
I smell a rat.
A rat ran across the road.
A bat is no more a bird than a rat is.
A rat chewed a hole in the wall.
You're such a pack rat.
Seems like the cat had gotten wind of a rat.
The cat ran after the rat.
The rat's here! Go call the cat!
Tom had to have his stomach pumped because he had accidentally eaten some rat poison.
Tom fought like a cornered rat.
Tom accidentally ate some rat poison.
A fat cat with a hat on, sat on a mat, dreaming to catch a rat or a bat.
I killed the rat with a stick.
He'll be sure to smell a rat if I'm with you.
Is the rat alive or dead?
When the cat leaves, the rat dances.
Rat whiskers are gross.
It's rat meat.
The hawk caught a rat.
I need to buy some rat poison.

Movie subtitles

The rat!
About two more days of this. and this rat-bitten end of a piece of bread's gonna taste like a hunk of fruit cake.
Now, you low-down rat, get out. or we wreck the joint! - Come on!
It's just a scratch, you yellow rat!
No! You yellow rat!
Stinking yellow rat!
Stew Smith's not gonna hang around and be a speakeasy rat.
We are, you know, dada. What did you tell me that for? When i've just had the truth out of that little rat?
You murdering rat!
You can't expect me to spend the night like a half-drowned rat on a mountainside.
Come on, you rat.
I told you I'd get you without a gun and you'd squeal like a yellow rat.
A wound on the throat, as from the bite of a cat or rat, is the mark of damnation.
And if they don't - if it looks like that snitch might rat on us - one single phone call and this whole place gets blown sky-high.
Even a rat, for all its fury, falls prey to it.
You rat! You swine!
Think you can run home and rat on me to Franz?
Stew Smith is not gonna hang around and be any speakeasy rat.
What rat would say anything about me.
Yes, right in his office, the rat.
You're a dirty, sneaking little rat as well.
I smell a rat!
That dirty little rat Nunheim.
Why, the rat, he can't top us.
You may wish you had this back. About two more days of this. and this rat-bitten end of a piece of bread's gonna taste like a hunk of fruit cake.
Now, you low-down rat, get out. or we wreck the joint!
I'm wounded! It's just a scratch, you yellow rat!
YOU LITTLE RAT!
ARGH! YOU RAT!
You rat.
You dirty rat.
Dirty rat.

News and current affairs

Although people and rats fear different things, the manner in which the rat and human brain and body respond to danger is similar.
A rat's amygdala responds to natural dangers (rats fear cats without having to learn to do so) and learns about new dangers (sounds, sights and smells that occur in anticipation of cats and other threats).
It is through studies of the way the brain learns about stimuli, such as the sounds that precede danger, that our systems for learning about fear, and memory as a whole, have been elucidated through rat studies.
A rat infected with Toxoplasma is perfectly healthy, but it loses its instinctive fear when it smells a cat.
By altering the rat's neurochemistry, Toxoplasma may make its hosts easier targets.
Culture is a necessary pause from the daily rat race, from our chaotic and often vulgar political surroundings, and it is a chance to recover our spiritual energy.
The New Economy is a rat race, but everybody, at least as a buyer, is king.