Definitions for rat

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IPA: /ræt/

Rat is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in rat (art).

Definitions for rat

noun

1. any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
2. any of various similar or related animals.
3. Slang. a scoundrel.
4. Slang. a person who abandons or betrays his or her party or associates, especially in a time of trouble. an informer. a scab laborer.
5. Slang. a person who frequents a specified place:
6. a pad with tapered ends formerly used in women's hair styles to give the appearance of greater thickness.

Idioms

1. smell a rat, to suspect or surmise treachery; have suspicion:

interjection

1. rats, Slang. (an exclamation of disappointment, disgust, or disbelief.)

verb (used with object)

1. to dress (the hair) with or as if with a rat.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to desert one's party or associates, especially in a time of trouble. to turn informer; squeal: to work as a scab.
2. to hunt or catch rats.

Origin of rat

before 1000; Middle English rat(t)e, Old English ræt; cognate with Dutch rat, German Ratz, Ratte

Examples for rat

Was the occupant a rat or a skunk, and if so, what was he going to do?

Not that the rat Pack party days were completely behind him.

Not a rat could have crawled out since we came, nor could one have gone in.

So, he got the copper and the nails and the pot and the rat that could speak, and the Devil vanished.

A cabin filled with the rat Pack and the ladies who loved them.

One rat had once fallen on his head, he said, during a rat raid of a local home.

Mr. COX said he could not smelt a pig, but he thought he smelt a rat.

A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.

I suppose I could if I wished; but then one must rat—that's a bore.

Since rat root comes from a plant that grows on the edge of the lake there are concerns that the plant is carrying toxins.