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Definition of Rat

1. Noun. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.

2. Verb. Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage.

3. Noun. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.

4. Verb. Employ scabs or strike breakers in.

5. Noun. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible. "The British call a contemptible person a `git'"

6. Verb. Take the place of work of someone on strike.

7. Noun. One who reveals confidential information in return for money.

8. Verb. Give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat.

9. Noun. A pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure.

10. Verb. Catch rats, especially with dogs.

11. Verb. Give away information about somebody. "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

Definition of Rat

1. n. 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.

2. v. i. 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.

Definition of Rat

1. to hunt rats (long-tailed rodents) [v RATTED, RATTING, RATS]

Medical Definition of Rat

1. 1. One of the 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. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into Anerica from the Old World. 2. A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair. 3. One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union. "It so chanced that, not long after the accession of the house of Hanover, some of the brown, that is the German or Norway, rats, were first brought over to this country (in some timber as is said); and being much stronger than the black, or, till then, the common, rats, they in many places quite extirpated the latter. The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first, as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the government of George the First, but has by degrees obtained a wide meaning, and come to be applied to any sudden and mercenary change in politics." Bamboo rat, any American rat of the genus Neotoma, especially N. Floridana, common in the Southern United States. Its feet and belly are white. Origin: AS. Raet; akin to D. Rat, OHG. Rato, ratta, G. Ratte, ratze, OLG. Ratta, LG. & Dan. Rotte, Sw. Ratta, F. Rat, Ir. & Gael radan, Armor. Raz, of unknown origin. Cf. Raccoon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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