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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'rat' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions rat noun  In scientific usage, any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodent, rodents belonging to the genus Rattus. (colloquial) 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. A person who is known for betrayal; a traitor. What a , leaving us stranded here! 1883, w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island : He"s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house... 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. Translations:  Dutch: rat , bruine rat , rioolrat , zwarte rat French: rat , souris , surmulot , rat gris , rat d'égout , rat noir German: Ratte Italian: topo , sorcio , ratto Spanish: rata verb (rat, t, ed) (context, usually with "on" or "out") to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in. He ratted on his coworker. He is going to us out! (context, of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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