Rat Definition–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. | | 4. | Slang. | a. | a person who abandons or betrays his or her party or associates, esp. in a time of trouble. | | | 5. | Slang. a person who frequents a specified place: a mall rat; gym rats. | | 6. | a pad with tapered ends formerly used in women's hair styles to give the appearance of greater thickness. | –interjection | 7. | rats, Slang. (an exclamation of disappoi
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ntment, disgust, or disbelief.) | –verb (used without object) | 8. | Slang. | a. | to desert one's party or associates, esp. in a time of trouble. | | b. | to turn informer; squeal: He ratted on the gang, and the police arrested them. | | | 9. | to hunt or catch rats. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to dress (the hair) with or as if with a rat. | —Idiom | 11. | smell a rat
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, to suspect or surmise treachery; have suspicion: After noting several discrepancies in his client's story, the attorney began to smell a rat. | |
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