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Type Words
Synonyms blackleg, scab, strikebreaker
Type of worker
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Synonyms bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot
Type of unpleasant person, disagreeable person


kill the rat.
Type Words
Synonyms blackleg, fink, scab
Type of do work, work
Derivation ratter
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Synonyms betray, denounce, give away, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on
Type of inform
Has types sell someone out
Derivation ratting, ratter
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Synonyms betrayer, blabber, informer, squealer
Type of source, informant
Has types nark, grass, fink, copper's nark, canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon, supergrass
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Type of rodent, gnawer
Has types oryzomys palustris, mole rat, norway rat, brown rat, rice rat, rattus rattus, rattus norvegicus, roof rat, bandicoot rat, black rat, pocket rat, jerboa rat
Derivation ratty
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Type of pad
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Type of capture, catch
Derivation ratter
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Type of desert, defect
Derivation ratter
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Type of hire, engage, employ
Derivation ratter
Type Words
Type of fill out, pad

Examples of rat

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Rat snakes get their name because they are primarily predators of small mammals.
From the sciencedaily.com
Many couldn't spot a rat until they were bitten fair and square in the rear end.
From the nzherald.co.nz
A sample of the daily rat haul is combed for fleas, which are tested for plague.
From the latimes.com
Brimijoin uses harmless cold-related viruses to deliver the gene into rat cells.
From the newscientist.com
I would show up like drowned rat after scuba diving and leave looking beautiful.
From the ocregister.com
Rat Island not only has an unappealing name, but an equally unappealing history.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Can kittens and cats be harmed if they eat a mouse or rat that has eaten poison?
From the telegraph.co.uk
She named it Sweetie, spent hundreds on the vet, the cage and yogurt rat treats.
From the post-gazette.com
The cat and the rat jumped on the ox's head and together they crossed the river.
From the theepochtimes.com
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  • Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
  • Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
  • Employ scabs or strike breakers in
  • Scab: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
  • Fink: take the place of work of someone on strike
  • Rotter: 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'"
  • Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus. ...
  • Atomic War Bride (Serbo-Croatian: ''Rat, literally War''), is a 1960 Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajiu0107.
  • Rat is a 2000 Irish/British/American comedy film directed by Steve Barron. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change.