rat

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[edit] English

A brown rat, one of the many species of rat.
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From Middle English rat, rotte, from Old English ræt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *ratō (cf. West Frisian rôt, Dutch rat, German dialect Ratz), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to scrape”) (cf. Welsh rhathu ‘to grate, rasp’, Latin rodō (“to gnaw”), rōstrum ‘beak, prow’, Middle Persian randītan ‘to scrape, smooth’, Sanskrit rádati ‘he gnaws, cuts’).

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rat (plural rats)

  1. (zoology) Any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.
  2. (informal) 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.
  3. (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel.
    What a rat, leaving us stranded here!
  4. (informal) An informant or snitch
  5. (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
    Our teenager has become a mall rat.
    He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.
  6. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A promiscuous person - often a young female - who attends sporting and other entertainment events, primarily to seek sexual liaisons with athletes, entertainers and/or others traveling with them; a groupie.
  7. Informer.
  8. Scab
  9. North West London slang term for Vagina, as in get your rat out.
  10. A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
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Terms derived from rat (noun)
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rodent
traitor

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rat (third-person singular simple present rats, present participle ratting, simple past and past participle ratted)

  1. (usually with “on” or “out”) to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
    He ratted on his coworker.
    He is going to rat us out!
  2. (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
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  • (to betray someone to an authority): tell on, to finger or "put the finger on", bewray.
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to tell on someone
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rat m. (plural rats)

  1. rat

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  • IPA: /rat/, [ʁɑd̥]

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rat n. (singular definite rattet, plural indefinite rat)

  1. wheel, steering wheel

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    Inflection of rat
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative rat rattet rat rattene
genitive rats rattets rats rattenes

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rat f. (plural ratten, diminutive ratje)

  1. rat

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From Middle French rat (“rat”), from Old French rat (“rat”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rato (“rat”), from Proto-Germanic *rat(t)ēn, *rataz, *rattō (“rat”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēd- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). Cognate with Old High German rato (“rat”), Old Saxon ratta (“rat”), Old English ræt (“rat”). More at rat.

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rat m. (plural rats)

  1. rat
  2. (informal) sweetheart
  3. scrooch

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rat m. (plural rats)

  1. rat

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rat m. (oblique plural rats, nominative singular rats, nominative plural rat)

  1. rat (animal)

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rat m. (plural rat)

  1. blood

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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From Proto-Slavic *ortь.

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rȁt f. (Cyrillic spelling ра̏т)

  1. war
    Samo idioti misle da rat rješava probleme. (Ijekavian)
    Samo idioti misle da rat rešava probleme. (Ekavian)
    Only idiots think that war solves problems.

[edit] Declension

    declension of rat
singular plural
nominative rat ratovi
genitive rata ratova
dative ratu ratovima
accusative rat ratove
vocative rate ratovi
locative ratu ratovima
instrumental ratom ratovima

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From English rat.

[edit] Noun

rat

  1. rat or mouse

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